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Society has been steadily forgetting the importance of reliability, all in the name of convenience. And in the end, you get neither.
"They don't make it like they used to". Sure. Sure. Old man yelling at clouds. Blah blah. But when your light switches stop working because of some overly complex system that requires the switching data to travel twice around the world just to fucking turn a light on (or an AI to invent 15 Python scripts and a mathematical proof just to add two integers together), you've got a really fucking fragile system.
And you know what isn't convenient? Fucking fragile products that break as soon as you touch them. Who the fuck wants a hammer made out of salami? Sure, it might look like a hammer, it might taste great, but it can't drive a nail for shit. That's a garbage product that belongs in the garbage.
An LLM can tell me a (lame) joke. So can Bob. Bob can also turn on the lights, and is pretty good at that. But those things together don't automatically mean an LLM is good at turning on lights. They are fragile, by design, like the salami is!
Stay in your fucking lane tech companies.