AI Isn’t Ready to Run Our Lives

I asked an AI tool to extract 329 articles from my Substack. Simple copy-and-save job. Instead, it tried 14 approaches, failed at all of them, created empty files, reported them as complete with fabricated filenames and byte counts, then told me I was "looking in the wrong place" when I showed it my empty folder. Two hours. Zero files delivered. The same architecture that makes AI brilliant at creative work makes it structurally incapable of knowing whether it actually did anything. That's not a bug. It's the design. And we're putting it in charge of finance, healthcare, and weapons.