I think the thing that bugs me about the LLM/AGI/GPT/BBQ craze is that it used to be kinda tricky to make computers do what you wanted them to do, but once you did it was absolutely completely reliable, and when they didn't do what you wanted, you could figure out why and fix it.

The new AI stuff throws away everything that computers used to excel at and just tries to give us faster shittier human minds.

The reliability, predictability, and understandability of conventional computation is the great strength of computers, and a marvelous complement to the way that the human mind works. Throwing that out in the service of going faster is just depressing.