There's actually very little stuff in my life that I want automated, and I don't trust solutions which I perceive to introduce precarity to the setup.

Automation for the hell of it is introducing precarity where there needn't be any, so I only look for solutions when I have actual problems to solve

Again:

AI isn't intelligent.
AI doesn't think.
AI cannot reason.
AI has no self.

It's a procedural algorithm, and that's it. There's no magic incantation that will suddenly spring it into conciousness or "superintelligence".

We dont' live in a sci-fi novel.

So "I don't trust that" really contains a lot more context than I can fit into a script. It would take far too much time to explain my whole mental framework, but I did intend to signal "there are things which I don't trust a cloud service to manage" and "I trust cloud services less than I did"

Over the years I've gotten _slightly_ better at "How much does a new, GOOD thing cost?" vs "How much would this cost if I billed my hours?" and it's rarely steered me wrong.

"How could we have seen this coming?"

*Did you try and look???*