So you are saying that because cars are designed by engineers, you don't need to check that the brakes work, because engineering is magic and you trust it.

Are you talking about manual or digital calculators?

What happens when you divide by zero on a mechanical calculator?

Now unless you're using a machine in which you can clearly see every single part of it, such as an abacus, you can't be 100% sure it's actually working correctly. You may reliably assume that of such a base level of technology as calculators, and of calculator software on your PC/phone, and you may also somewhat reliably trust that a car is in working order.

However, in my country the law actually does mention that you're required to check that all lights, indicators, and safety equipment functions before going out on the road, but if everyone actually did that everywhere in the world, the whole gimmick of cutting brake lines wouldn't exist.

Now is AI way more unreliable, and actually hallucinates things? Yes. But were search engines pretty much equally unreliable in the early days of the world wide web? Also yes. That's why you still hear people sneering "oh, did you Google that?". Yes, obviously I used a search engine to search for information, but I also known how to verify the sources of any information I find with it.

The modern version is LLM, a few years back it was "oh did you read that on Wikipedia" and before that is was general derision at all search engines.

As if someone actually fucking took the time to walk to a library anymore to spend an hour looking at books which might talk about the subject you have a question about and might be several decades old and have out of date information.

I can't even take the rest of your bullshit seriously if you honestly think what you said has any merit.

The "tldr" or "do your own research" of the pseudointellectual. I'm confident you're perfectly capable of understanding what I said. You just don't want to answer because it'd show your logic sucks and you can't form your own opinions.