Comment by simonw

"The non-experts are holding it wrong!"

We aren't talking about non-experts here. Go read https://www.thalamusgme.com/blogs/methodology-for-creation-a...

They're clearly competent developers (despite mis-identifying GPT-5-mini as GPT-5o-mini) - but they also don't appear to have evaluated the alternative models, presumably because of this bit:

"This solution was selected given Thalamus utilizes Microsoft Azure for cloud hosting and has an enterprise agreement with them, as well as with OpenAI, which improves overall data and model security"

I agree with your general point though. I've been a pretty consistent voice in saying that this stuff is extremely difficult to use.