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I think so. But it’s a hard sell given the AI push. I look at it this way (simplistically): it knows how to say/do things convincingly or plausibly, it only knows what to say/do inasmuch as it is prompted properly, but it doesn’t know why it does what it does. People don’t understand this. I know how to make judgement calls and discern from multiple choices while AI just gives an answer with authority. It’s the difference between me looking up recipes and thinking “well I could do x or y to start this spaghetti” versus AI declaring “start with a skillet of kerosene over high heat.” Selling the critical thinking to people who want to be told what to do by a product they’ve been told will solve everything is difficult but necessary.