> If it generates functional output that works, then it works.

Tried that in legal? Finance? Medicine?

Good luck with the lost cases, failed deals, harmed patients.

"If it works, it works" applies only when the work is brute-forceable e.g. vuln search, or is generation of bullsh*t e.g. adverts, phishing scams and deepfakes.

This. So much this. All the major "advances" have been effectively brute forced. Notice the term brute denoting a lack of intelligence.