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FWIW The Monkey's Paw is originally a 1902 story published in Harper's.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monkey%27s_Paw

The Simpsons borrowed from that.

> It's like the Monkey's Paw from the Simpsons

This is really, really funny in the context of age and perspective. But not in the way you meant.

No need to be condescending about it. I mentioned the Simpsons because the author referenced the Simpsons.

I didn’t mean to be condescending. Sorry. It’s just so perfectly expressive of the nature of culture and the way culture overwrites culture.

>Personally, I think we've reached the limits of "computers do exactly what you ask them to do, to a fault.

Good point, maybe this is the dawn of a new kind of computer engineering, a higher level, fundamentally social one.

We already see people "hacking" chatGPT to reveal its system prompts or get around its given boundaries using nothing but clever conversational logic tricks.