[jacobr1]

I half agree. But two points: 1) if you can formalize your instructions ... then future instances can be fully automated. 2) You are still probably having the AI perform many sub-tasks. AI-skeptics regularly fall into this god-of-the-gaps trap. You aren't wrong that human-augmented AI isn't 100% AI ... but it still is AI-augmentation, and again, that sets the stage for point 1 - to enable later future full automation on long enough timecycles.

[skydhash]

> if you can formalize your instructions

Isn't that...code?

[deaux]

No. Think of all engineering disciplines that aren't software. Those all depend on human-language formal instructions.