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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.

    There isn't really a single sliding scale of "complexity" when it comes to certain tasks.

    Given the appropriate input, a calculator can divide two numbers. But it can't count the number of R's in the word "strawberry".

    Meanwhile, a script that could count the number of instances of a letter in a word could count those R's, but it couldn't divide any two numbers.

    Similarly, we didn't complain that a typewriter couldn't put pepperoni slices onto a pizza.

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