I couldn't do any of those, but then ~$10k of education later I was able to accomplish one of those things.

I think LLMs are really impressive, but I suspect that we might have overpaid just a bit.

It costs money to train each single human, who is then only productive for a number of years until age takes its toll. Once you have trained one software system, the marginal cost of producing a copy approaches zero. Every subsequent improvement can be broadcasted in a matter of seconds across thousands of data centers. In addition, software does not get sick, age, or die.