@ai6yr the "backyard furnace" simile wrt ai is the one i've too had in mind for a long time.

perfectly sensible people suggest 'using ai' for basic automation tasks that've possible since the 70's or supposedly technically capable ones pasting reams of babble amounting to 'maybe you have an uncaught error somewhere' when others are trying to find where that error is..

@geospaz @ai6yr A peer recently seriously suggested using an LLM to sort a short text list.

In other news, Tony Hoare hasn't been dead a month and this is where we are now.