> Every good Brenda is precisely good because she checks her own work before shipping it. AI does not do this.

A confident statement that's trivial to disprove. I use claude code to build and deploy services on my NAS. I can ask it to spin up a new container on my subdomain and make it available internal only or also available externally. It knows it has access to my Cloudflare API key. It knows I am running rootless podman and my file storage convention. It will create the DNS records for a cloudflared tunnel or just setup DNS on my pihole for internal only resolution. It will check to make sure podman launched the container and it will then try to make an HTTP request to the site to verify that it is up. It will reach for network tools to test both the public and private interfaces. It will check the podman logs for any errors or warnings. If it detects errors, it will attempt to resolve them and is typically successful for the types of services I'm hosting.

Instructions like: "Setup Jellyfin in a container on the NAS and integrate it with the rest of the *arr stack. I'd like it to be available internally and externally on watch.<domain>.com" have worked extremely well for me. It delivers working and integrated services reliably and does check to see that what it deployed is working all without my explicit prompting.

You’ve switched contexts completely with your strawman. Meaning, you’ve pivot Brenda in finance to some technical/software engineer task. You’ve pointed the conversation specifically at a use case that AI is good at, writing code and solving those problems. The world at large is much more complex than helping you be a 10x engineer. To live up to the hype, it has to do this reliably for every vertical in a majority of situations. It’s not even close to being there.

Also, context equivalent counter examples abound. Just read HN or any tech forum and it’s takes no time to hear people talking about the hallucinations and garbage that AI sometimes generates. The whole vibe coding trend is built on “make this app” then followed by hundreds of “fix this” “fix that” prompts because it doesn’t get much right at first attempt.