> It understands and acknowledges every request, idea, vision, flaw, structure, requirement, needs and just ignores and fails to implement it and cannot consistently think through it. I just can’t believe that.

Believe it. You're anthropomorphizing. It doesn't understand anything. There is no "thinking" going on. Yes, the point of LLMs as a service is to make money. Yes, the service is designed to maximize profit. Yes, there are dark patterns baked into the system. Yes, keeping you addicted and using the service is part of the business model. This isn't human instrumentality, it's just capitalism.

Until you realize the machine isn't qualitatively superior to your own mind and your own efforts, you're just going to keep torturing yourself because your nature forces you to maximize your productivity at any cost, which given your false assumptions about LLMs means ceding as much of yourself to the machine as possible and suffering its inadequacies. I use "you" collectively here because it seems like a lot of people have worked themselves into this corner where they don't like what LLMs do for them but feel compelled to use them anyway.

It's just a tool. If you don't like the tool, don't use the tool.

Fair. “It understands” is probably the emotional description, not the technical one.

The practical problem is that it can imitate understanding well enough to get a large project moving, then break down right where durable system memory and architectural consistency matter most.

So yes, it’s a tool. The problem is that it’s useful enough that “just don’t use it” is not a real answer, and broken enough that you eventually have to build around the gap.