Gemini is patient with me (a quickie about pecans)

An assortment of nuts has come into my possession. A fancy assortment. So fancy that some defy ready identification by one such as I, who attended a public high school and lacks specialized training.

Gemini made quick work of the identification. Hooray! I love pecans. The correct nutmeat-extraction tool is sourced from inventory but the results were not optimal.

The treat was exposed for examination and extraction, true. But whereas I would have hoped to have been able to extract it whole, or (as a concession to the mechanical needs of the pecan growth cycle) in neat halves, crushed bits of pecan were commingled with bits of crushed shell. Which obviously could only hamper the pecan-snarfling process.

I returned to Gemini to ask the pertinent followup question. I scrolled to the bottom of its original, full response, and discovered this:

And after I answered in the enthusiastic affirmative, Gemini's through response included the following:

This is why I continue to assert that Gemini delivers consistent value for money. Its social skills are practically beyond reproach:

• It could see from my photo that my interest in the subject was far from academic. "He's going to want to know how to shell those things, I bet. I should offer to walk him through it, in case he's too shy to come right out and ask, out of fear that I might consider it an imposition."
• Its explanation of different methods of pecan extraction was through enough to cover all relevant methods as well as a potential pitfall that those who are new to this game are likely to encounter.
• Further, while explaining that the first tool selected by the layperson was (counterintuitively) absolutely not the correct one, Gemini kept things professional. "I bet you went and tried to do it with a V-shaped hinged nutcracker, and you made a colossal hash of it of course, and only then did you come to me for advice...instead of having enough common sense and humility to acknowledge that you had no business attempting the ingress of an unshelled pecan without expert supervision and counsel."

Result: life wisdom was obtained, at the cost of only a single ruined pecan.

(And the ruined pecan will not go to waste. I scooped the pieces off the cutting board and into an envelope. I will drop this envelope into the donation box for my local food bank during my next trip to the supermarket.)

The final logical step in this interaction was, obviously, this:

And fair warning: if you click on the following video because you're too curious not to…good, this means that you're an accomplice after the fact re: all of the ethical and environmental issues I've created by using generative AI.

(Oh, hush. You're carrying on as though our species wasn't going to wind up destroying the planet one way or another.)