AI is not always the answer

This article challenges the assumption that AI is the universal solution for technical problems, using a specific captcha as a case study. The author critiques a Reddit post claiming modern AI struggles with a movement-based captcha, instead proposing a simpler approach inspired by 1980s optical mouse technology. By analyzing pixel shifts between consecutive frames, the captcha can be broken without AI, using basic image processing and OCR like Tesseract. The article includes JavaScript code snippets for filtering and marking pixels. It emphasizes choosing the right tool for the job, not defaulting to AI, and is highly relevant to IT/technology topics like programming, algorithms, and tech problem-solving.