It's a very roundabout and unreliable way of doing things, which is why it's so incredibly dumb that people have lost their fucking minds over it.
Absolutely the foundation of this and all of my other posts.
I get your point about needing to be more specific; I was actually referring to pre-LLM ‘AI’ which isn’t really AI, and even that is not perfect but is certainly preferable to modern LLMs/AGI