The main thing they cannot do is be held accountable for any decisions, which makes them not trustworthy.

This is not correct. They can say "sorry" which makes them as accountable as ordinary developer.

interstice 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I've found recent versions of Claude and codex to be reluctant in this regard. They will recognise the problem they created a few minutes ago but often behave as if someone else did it. In many ways that's true though, I suppose.

	▲	bee_rider 41 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Does it do this for really cut and dry problems? I’ve noticed that ChatGPT will put a lot of effort into (retroactively) “discovering” a basically-valid alternative interpretation of something it said previously, if you object on good grounds. Like it’s trying to evade admitting that it made a mistake, but also find some say to satisfy your objection. Fair enough, if slightly annoying. But I have also caught it on straightforward matters of fact and it’ll apologize. Sometimes in an over the top fashion…

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bluefirebrand 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That's not what accountability is