It’s also why they can produce such hard to identify bullshit and harmful output. I’ve had some really convincing, yet fundamentally flawed, code output that if I hadn’t done about a million code reviews before I might have just used.
And been totally screwed later.
Near as I can tell, that the bullshit is so much more convincing with them is a huge detriment that society really won’t learn to appreciate until it’s gotten really bad. As I noted in another thread, it allows people to get much further into the ‘fake it until you make it’ hole than they otherwise would.
That 90% of the time it’s fine is what actually makes it all worse.