>But it's still funny that we expect the machine to be perfect, before it can do something for us.

We expect machines to be perfect at the things they should be perfect at, and when they aren't perfect we consider that a malfunction and try to make them closer to perfect. A calculator that can't do math correctly every time is a bad calculator. And until LLMs came along computers were just complicated calculators.

Now, however, we build the calculator with an LLM and just accept that it sometimes gets confuzzled and makes numbers up because "humans are no better at math."

It's not funny, it's the way things used to work and it's objectively worse that things can't work that way anymore.