Prepare for household appliances - washing machines etc. - doing strange things randomly.

Prepare for the same thing with electronics which you didn't consider as containing much software before - central heating units, AC units, fridges, stoves, light switches, LED light bulbs, vacuum cleaners, electric shavers, electric toothbrushes, kids toys, microwave ovens, really anything which consumes electricity.

Prepare for the support of the vendors of those appliances not taking phone calls anymore, only text communication.

Prepare for the support not understanding the random problems you encounter.

Prepare for the answers you get from support being similarly random.

And maybe, with an unknown probability, prepare for your house burning down and nobody can tell you why.

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Perhaps certain consumer electronics should come with a label "Programmed by Humans", such as the "Free-Range/Cage-Free" labels.

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It's funny seeing the same people who blithely told blue collar workers to "just learn how to code" now act like luddites when innovation comes for their skillset.

Just learn how to be a plumber.

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Asked ChatGPT: "George's mother has 4 children: John, Mary, and Tom. What is the name of the fourth child?", they answered: "The fourth child's name is not given in the information provided." and even, after rephrasing, "The name of the third child is not given in the statement 'George's mom has 3 children: John and Mary.' So, it's impossible to say what is the name of the 3rd child."

Not sure whose skillset is being threatened, 5-year-olds?

https://github.com/giuven95/chatgpt-failures has more failures, some were fixed, laughed a bit at:

  me: "write a sentence ending with the letter s"

  ChatGPT: "The cat's fur was as soft as a feather."