I intended those words to imply "being misleading even if they don't know they are being misleading" - I made a better version of that point here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

> If someone tells you that coding with LLMs is easy they are (probably unintentionally) misleading you. They may well have stumbled on to patterns that work, but those patterns do not come naturally to everyone.