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I feel like one benefit of humans is you can find someone you can truly trust under almost all circumstances and delegate to them.

With AI you have a thing you can't quite trust under any circumstance even if it's pretty good at everything.

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Like a proverbial broken clock which shows correct time twice per 24 hours, AI may "show correct time" for 99% of prompts, but doesn't deserve any more trust.

A hammer doesn't always work as desired, it depends on your skills plus some random failures. When it works however, you can see the result and are satisfied with it - congratulations, you saved some time by not using a rock for the same task.

I can trust a hammer will be a hammer, though.

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