> A lot of tools have affordances built in to make "right" things easy and "wrong" or unsafe things harder.

This is true for almost anything handed to laypeople, but not for a lot of professional tools. Even a plain battery powered drill has very few protections against misuse. A soldering iron has none. Neither do sewing needles; sewing machines barely do, in the sense that you can't stick your fingers in a gap too narrow. A chemist's chemicals certainly have no protections, only warning labels. Etc.

Also cf. the hierarchy of controls: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hierarchy-of-controls/about/index....

people don't seem to want to eliminate AI → replacing it doesn't improve things → isolating it - yup, people are trying to put it in containers and not give it access to delete the production database → changing how people work with it: that's where we are now → PPE: no such thing for AI, sadly → production database is deleted.

Exactly this. I was talking about professionals. People who should know better. If we as professionals give away our agency and our accountability we make ourselves obsolete. If I just tell the LLM what to do and hope it doesn't go south then the Manager could probably do that as well.

And if a non professional did it they should ask themselves why we have professionals. Maybe there was a reason and maybe they do have value.

An LLM is a large and complex machine, not a screwdriver. Large and complex [physical] machines are built with safeguards to prevent misuse, injury, etc by regulation.