The paradox of them selling "intelligence on demand" or "coding agents rivaling the best developers" and yet having dumb as fart bots/scrapers is lost on many. But not all.
There's no paradox, just deception. "AI" is dumb as a bag of rocks, but good at convincing people that it isn't. However, it's also a really good semantic vector search that can find and combine existing answers to many pre-asked questions.