Comment by Velorivox

Title is a bit provocative and begs the question (is thinking the part being replaced?), but the bigger issue is what “little” means here. Little in absolute terms? I think that’s harsh. Little in relation to how it’s touted? That’s a rational conclusion, I think.

You need three things to use LLM based tools effectively: 1) an understanding of what the tool is good at and what it isn’t good at; 2) enough context and experience to input a well formulated query; and 3) the ability to carefully verify the output and discard it if necessary.

This is the same skillset we’ve been using with search engines for years, and we know that not everyone has the same degree of Google-fu. There’s a lot of subjectivity to the “value”.