Yup. This is exactly why I lead my first response with “assume nothing”. When something does work, it may not be for the reasons one would first assume.
The next gen of AIs will be a big step forward, and the ones after that, especially as they rely less on LLM alone and start to combine Knowledge Bases and other forms of AI for logic and reasoning. The current generation of AI are a lot less actually ‘intelligent’ than they appear, by a long, long way.
Plus experimenting is fun, with more than a few good laughs along the way. 