I would accept mistakes and inconsistency from a human, especially one not very experienced or skilled. But I expect perfection and consistency from a machine. When I command my computer to do something, I expect it to do it correctly, the same way every time, to convert a particular input to an exact particular output, every time. I don't expect it to guess, or randomly insert garbage, or behave non-deterministically. Those things are called defects(bugs) and I'd want them to be fixed.
This seems like a particularly limited view of what a machine is. Specifically expecting it to behave deterministically.
Still, the whole Unix philosophy of building tools starts with a foundation of building something small that can do one thing well. If that is your foundation, you can take advantage of composability and create larger tools that are more capable. The foundation of all computing today is built on this principle of design.
Building on AI seems more like building on a foundation of sand, or building in a swamp. You can probably put something together, but it's going to continually sink into the bog. Better to build on a solid foundation, so you don't have to continually stop the thing from sinking, so you can build taller.
Would you welcome your car behaving in a nondeterministic fashion?
Then you are going to hate the future.
Way ahead of you. I already hate the present, at least the current sad state of the software industry.
Exactly this.