But this is a magic shovel that digs holes and tunnels all by itself exactly as intended. It should be able to do this without any special skill involved in prompting it.

You're thinking post-scarcity. We aren't there yet, but one say well have a magic wand, magic shovel, and magic anything else that is currently scarce.

You sound like a low-information luddite. Have you tried this week's latest model? You're probably prompting it wrong.

Sorry, I don't follow how a sarcastic joke about the claims of post-scarcity would make me a ludite or imply that I am saying models today aren't useful for certain tasks.

They too are being sarcastic.

no it isn't

But it's not unreasonable to ask the shovel salesman to show me a hole that model of shovel was used to dig.