Learning to program a computer makes it clear that a computer is incompetent. How do we find out if something is in a list? Does this one match? No. Does this one match? No. Does this one match? No. And on and on. One of the biggest hurdles I ever had to get over starting out was understanding how much of what made a computer feel “smart” was just a lot of really dumb things done really fast (and hopefully in the right order and with the right logic).

But that means if you don’t get that logic right, nothing else is right, and that’s where these AI tools lose their magic. When they get it right they’re impressive and when they get it wrong, it lays bare that your computer is very very stupid, just very fast