Also, not every producer has the social skills or the neurotypical brain needed to just reach out to people and work with them.

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.