So basically - "ai" - actually llms - are decent at what they are trained at - producing plausible text with a bunch of structure and constraints - and a lot of programming, boring work emails, reddit/hn comments, etc can fall into that. It still requires understanding to know when that diverges from something useful, it still is just plausible text, not some magic higher reasoning.

Are they something worth using up vast amounts of power and restructuring all of civilisation around? No

Are they worth giving more power to megacorps over? No

Its like tech doesn't understand consent and then partially the classic case of "disrupting x" - thinking that you know how to solve something in maths, cs, physics and then suddenly that means you can solve stuff in a completely different field.

llms are over indexed.