> The intelligence illusion is in the mind of the user and not in the LLM itself.

> Many AI critics, including myself, are firmly in the second camp.

How can you reconcile this with the fact that AI can solve a real, intelligence bound problem for me (with zero intelligent effort on my part) that you can't?

Is the solution also illusory?

Horseshoe theory. At each end of the shoe you tend to get loud crazies.