It's crazy how some non-tech people have become so LLM-brained they think LLMs are the tool for literally everything.

I've had a few conversations like this at my company now:

- Why do we need Elasticsearch? Can't we just ask an LLM to return matches? (We have many gigabytes of text data to search).

- Why do we need to write code to determine what actions to take when does x, y, or z happens? Can't we just ask an LLM? (We have 1,000s of concurrent events which require high throughput rates, and even if we could scale it, the cost of using an LLM for this would be absurd).

- Why is it going to take a week to build x. John built a prototype in an afternoon using Claude. (0 understanding of the difference between using an LLM to build a prototype and reworking core behaviour in an existing production application with hundreds of thousands of users – something that requires extensive human planning and review even if an LLM can make most of the code changes).

> It's crazy how some non-tech people have become so LLM-brained (…)

Remove the “non-tech” qualifier and your assertion remains just as true.