The difference is that LLMs are not like any other tool. Reasoning by analogy doesn't work when things are sufficiently in-analogous.

For example, people try to compare this LLM tech with the automation of the car manufacturing industry. That analogy is a terrible one, because machines build better cars and are much more reliable than humans.

LLMs don't build better software, they build bad software faster.

Also, as a tool, LLMs discourage understanding in a way that no other tool does.