Nearly every woman I know who is an English as a second language speaker is leaning hard into these things currently to make their prose sound more natural. And that has segued into them being treated almost as a confidant or a friend.

As flawed as they are currently, I remain astounded that people think they will never improve and that people don't want a plastic pal who's fun to be with(tm).

I find them frustrating personally, but then I ask them deep technical questions on obscure subjects and I get science fiction in return.

As an EE working in engineering 30 years, I ran out of fingers and toes 29 years ago trying to count the number of asocial, incompetent programmer Dark Triads who can only relate to the world through esoteric semantics unrelated to engineering problems right in front of them.

"To add two numbers I must first simulate the universe." types that created a bespoke DSL for every problem. Software engineering is a field full of educated idiots.

Programmers really need to stop patting themselves on the back. Same old biology with the same old faults. Programmers are subjected to the same old physics as everyone else.