Comment by benregenspan

One other thing that might feed into skepticism is that, for the average person who does not actively choose to use LLMs, the most regular LLM interaction is likely to be with AI Overviews in Google search, which are generally a pretty unfortunate experience. For example my last search with an AI Overview, for interpretation of blood pressure reading, resulted in the output: "Systolic pressure (top number): 123 mmHg, which is within the normal range of less than 120 mmHg".

The fact that LLMs can generate this kind of output is not incompatible with the OP's argument about how useful they can be when combined with agents and code review. But search is the lowest-friction way for anyone to interact with LLMs currently, and right now it's a pretty poor advertisement.