It does seem like some would rather build a fish-giving vending machine where they can load it up with the fish discovered to date and get it to spit them back

It does seem like some would rather build a fish-giving vending machine where they can load it up with the fish discovered to date and get it to spit them back out vs a fishing machine that catches fish and distributes them. But to me this post exemplifies a pet peeve with AI discussions to date, which is a tendency to want a single model to do it all. Our brains are a network of specialized functions. Damage the hippocampus and your human also won't know the episode name. But somehow if a model uses an external store it's 'cheating' and not just networking specialized tools, even though that's how our own brains work.