Incredible how many times I read similar comments over the years, containing 'on the cusp' and 'what a time to be alive'. Indeed, what a time - not a single user-facing thing on the internet has improved since then, considering the power tool we got. The most used web services get drowned in generated stuff and so are the users

Not a single thing? In my house, we are using LLMs to:

- plan youth soccer practices

- develop well-formatted soccer game substitution schedules

- build and ship software in languages I haven't used in 25 years on platforms I've never programmed for

- do meal planning and build shopping lists

- prepare grocery shopping carts

- solicit medical advice

- perform Garmin watch data analysis

- administer devices (with SSH access) using natural language

- avoid counterfeit soccer jersey purchases

- create "Warrior Cat" graphic novels

- make cartoon strips

- troubleshoot appliances

- manage finances

- review accounting ledgers

- diagnose malware infections

- so much more

And we do it all from a simple prompt that we can talk to if we choose.

I've built more (and better) software in the past month than I did in any given year in the 30+ years I've been programming.

I can understand pessimism regarding how this affects society. I can understand pessimism regarding how this gets abused. But for the life of me there's no good reason at all to be pessimistic about how quickly this has improved.