> An LLM is always going to be a black box that is neither predictable nor visible (the unpredictability is necessary for how the tool functions; the invisibility is not but seems too late to fix now)

So basically, like a co-worker.

That's why I keep insisting that anthropomorphising LLMs is to be embraced, not avoided, because it gives much better high-level, first-order intuition as to where they belong in a larger computing system, and where they shouldn't be put.

> So basically, like a co-worker.

Arguably, though I don't particularly need another co-worker. Also co-workers are not tools (except sometimes in the derogatory sense).