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Well one could say that since it's AI, AI should be able to tell us what we're doing wrong. No?

AI is supposed to make our work easier.

Certainly, every tool is supposed to make our work easier or more productive, but that doesn't mean that every tool is intuitive or easy to learn to use effectively or even to use it at all.

Certainly, but aren't AI tools supposed to be intuitive and easy to use because we can communicate with them in natural language?

With VIM or Emacs I am supposed to know what Ctrl-X does. But with AI tools (ideally) I should be able to ask AI (in English) to edit the document for me?

Maybe the reason we can't do it that way is that, "We're not there yet"?

What you are doing wrong in respect to what? If you ask for A, how would any system know that you actually wanted to ask for B?

Honestly IMO it's more that I ask for A, but don't strongly enough discourage B then I get both A, B and maybe C, generally implemented poorly. The base systems need to have more focus and doubt built in before they'll be truely useful for things aside from a greenfield apps or generating maintainable code.

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