Purer form of the trade" is right, nothing beats fixing a mechanical shutter.

Honestly, that sounds like a setup problem, not a model problem. You used a free tool called 'SortBot' for a real business task, which was a huge risk from the start. The real failure was not testing it first with a small batch of emails before letting it run wild. Blaming the AI feels like avoiding the basic planning that was skipped.

Half my life, wow. My dad still uses the same tape measure from when he built our deck, the numbers are totally worn off.

It's the same reason I keep a headlamp in my car glove box now. You don't realize how bad regular lighting is until you're trying to read a fuse diagram in a dark parking lot. Good light turns a frustrating hunt into a simple task. We just accept bad conditions as normal way too often.

Why not just call it a modern art masterpiece?