United States was so ahead of China even 20 years ago, China was obviously never able to keep up, until it did, and then it was obvious that China was always going to overcome US, and now it’s obvious that this configuration is forever.
Something new will be always has been obvious in 20 years time.

But unless you did that, and actually don’t use the original, the possibility alone doesn’t do you any good

That’s a very convenient position that absolves you from any responsibility to do anything. Convenient, but I don’t think correct.

I don’t think you can separate a product from their CEO

Interesting. So far, all my experiences with stuff like that turned out to be faulty hardware.

People for some reason assume that you can pay $20 for a bot and it will do something. You need a person with a lot of experience to get something useful from this bot, and every time we actually measure, the results that your experienced person will be quicker and better not using it at all, and doing the same work themselves.
The corporate solution is to hire a not experienced person to wrangle the bots, but that’s a sure way to introduce bugs, not fix them.

What do you do with your browsers so they crash? Mine didn’t do that in at least a decade

he implication that this would mean that LLMs are far, far more capable than anyone gives them credit for, completely slipped past them.

That’s because those implications are blatant, open, clear lies. Your slop generator provides negative value to everyone except those who own it.

“Finding” bugs by throwing shit at the walls and assuming people will sort it out provides negative value. You technically are finding bugs, but you could do the same just assuming every line of your code contains five bugs. The question is in “and then what”, and the answer is “someone needs to sort them out and deal with it”, and if you have people who can fix the bug, they’re perfectly capable of finding it themselves. The bugs still exist because there is not enough people to fix that. And slop gen doesn’t help with that either.