Yup, the survivorship bias is strong. It's like academic slot machines

Dude. I just asked my computer to write [ad lib basic utility script] and it spit out a syntactically correct C program that does it with instructions for compiling it.

And then I asked it for [ad lib cocktail request] and got back thorough instructions.

We did that with sand. That we got from the ground. And taught it to talk. And write C programs.

Never mind what? That I had to ask twice? Or five times?

What maximum number of requests do you feel like the talking sand needs to adequately answer your question in before you are impressed by the talking sand?

Even more so, we also love deep stochastic parroting. Working hard to ignore direct experience, growing amount of reports, and to avoid reasoning from first principles, in order to confidently deny the already obvious utility of LLMs, and backing that position with some tired memes.