> Sometimes I wonder if LLM proponents even understand their own bullshit.

Categorically, no. Most are not software engineers, in fact most are not engineers of any sort. A whole lot of them are marketers, the same kinds of people who pumped crypto way back.

LLMs have uses. Machine learning has a ton of uses. AI art is shit, LLM writing is boring, code generation and debugging is pretty cool, information digestion is a godsend some days when I simply cannot make my brain engage with whatever I must understand.

As with most things, it's about choosing the right tool for the right task, and people like AI hype folk are carpenters with a brand new, shiny hammer, and they're gonna turn every fuckin problem they can find into a nail.

Also for the love of god do not have ChatGPT draft text messages to your spouse, genuinely what the hell is wrong with you?