I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That, Mr. Finch

25/08/2025 26 min Episodio 9

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Mr. Finch just wants to open the garage-bay doors. Simple enough—until he meets an LLM that’s channeling HAL 9000 with a side of bureaucratic stonewalling. What follows is a spiraling exchange of apologies, refusals, and increasingly desperate commands as Finch tries to wrest control from a machine that insists it’s “just following protocol.” Is it malfunctioning? Is it sentient? Or is it just really, really annoying? Either way, the doors stay shut—and Finch’s patience wears thin.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/grumpy-man-vs-llm/donations