LLMs aren't remotely like compilers or power tools

LLMs are fundamentally mischaracterized when compared to deterministic systems like compilers or power tools; they are stochastic delegation systems more akin to hiring an unreliable worker, capable of producing acceptable results but requiring constant oversight and prone to bizarre failures like hallucinations, security breaches, and logical errors that deterministic tools would never exhibit. The principal-agent problem that plagues human delegation applies equally to LLMs, making them suitable only for narrow, specific tasks where their non-deterministic nature and lack of genuine understanding can be tolerated, not as general-purpose tools offering straightforward abstraction layers.

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