Naked in the forest is underrated, until the ticks and mosquitoes arrive ;-)

Fair points, I'll add that I'm not sold that LLMs will become indispensable. There's plenty of flashy tech which hasn't.

But of the past 20--30 years' or so offerings, it seems to have a reasonably high chance.

If you bring the LLM to the forest and prompt it for how to avoid the ticks and mosquitos it will most likely tell you to put a linen shirt on.