[rglover]

> computer programmers, of all people, should know that computers do what you tell them to.

Right. The problem isn't that the tool isn't perfect, it's that you get a lot of excitable people with incentives pretending that it is or will soon be perfect (while simultaneously scaring non-technical people into thinking they'll be replaced with a chat bot soon).

There are certainly luddite types who are outright rejecting these tools, but if you have hands-on, daily experience, you can see the forest for the trees. You quickly realize that all of the "omg this thing is sentient" or "we can't let what we've got into the world, it's too dangerous" fodder like the Google panic memo are just covert marketing.