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The question is: who watches the automation to make sure that it works? People who work in automation services know better than to leave the machine unattended.

automation is: a machine does a series of steps when you press a button. if you press the button and the steps don't get done correctly that means the machine is broken and you fix it if the outcome of pressing the button is always "something different will happen than last time", not automation

with LLMs you push a button and you get a random outcome that you hope is sorta what you wanted. it might be what you wanted, but that will have been by chance, not because a procedure was followed. even if it gets so "good" that it "always" works (never happen) it will not have been automation

also very often it is in fact virtuous to do tasks instead of having them automated for you. automating things can be virtuous, doing things manually can be virtuous, in general automation is the more potentially destructive thing

Just because a machine can break that doesn’t mean the machine isn’t working up until it breaks AI bad, sure, but this is a pretty bizarre way to try to define automation as a way to “other” AI. Seems a lot more straightforward to just say that AI is bad because it hurts people and the planet