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Jim O'Flaherty

I asked it, too, to see it's answer. And it was the same answer given by a number of people replying to this thread. I even wondered why the OP didn't do this themselves.

That said, the answer demonstrates that the LLMs are just regurgitating what they have observed, and are not engaged in critical thinking about the actual problem itself.

If you will notice, I offered a response with critical thinking and did NOT use the AI/ML to compose it.

I think a huge number of people are going to get lost with the AI/ML LLM "looks like effective rational critical thinking", but it turns out that it isn't that at all.

And I suspect that the worst cases will be the marginal Software Engineers. They know just enough to inadvertently hurt themselves and others.

It strikes me as an excellent example of Hanlon's Razor:

"Do not attribute to malice that which is as easily attributed to ignorance."