Fred Brooks would surely have added AI assistants to the arsenal of supposed silver bullets that failed. One specific problem with chatGPT as it is today is th

Fred Brooks would surely have added AI assistants to the arsenal of supposed silver bullets that failed. One specific problem with chatGPT as it is today is that it gives answers that sound extremely confident. So confident it's tempting to follow them without any critical thinking. Sure you can guide it towards the correct answer, but it requires you knowing the answer in advance, which defeats the whole point.