People think that because AI cannot replace a senior dev, it's a worthless con.

Meanwhile, pretty much every single person in my life is using LLMs almost daily.

Guys, these things are not going away, and people will pay more money to use them in future.

Even my mom asks ChatGPT to make a baking applet with a picture she uploads of the recipe, that creates a simple checklist for adding ingredients (she forgets ingredients pretty often). She loves it.

This is where LLMs shine for regular people. She doesn't need it to create a 500k LOC turn-key baking tracking SaaS AWS back-end 5 million recipes on tap kitchen assistant app.

She just needs a bespoke one off check list.

is this really the best use case you could come up with? says it all really if so.

Is she going to pay enough to fund the multitrillion dollars it costs to run the current AI landscape?

I think there are 2 things at play here. LLMs are, without a doubt, absolutely useful/helpful but they have shortcomings and limitations (often worth the cost of using). That said, businesses trying to add "AI" into their products have a much lower success rate than LLM-use directly.

I dislike almost every AI feature in software I use but love using LLMs.

> People think that because AI cannot replace a senior dev, it's a worthless con.

Quite the strawman. There are many points between “worthless” and “worth 100s of billions to trillions of investment”.