AI doesn't care

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Are you surprised? You shouldn't be. In the end, it's just some program running somewhere, producing bits that you or another program can consume.

But it's still frustrating. All this effort to gather the right information, ask the right questions, and yet AI seems to spit out whatever feels right in the moment.

The details? Who cares? Not the AI, that's for sure.

Is it really a problem?

Maybe, if you keep asking AI to get the details right.

Absolutely not, if you take care of them yourself and use AI to brute-force your problems, explore the problem space, and spot where you should look.

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