Comment by thejohnconway

I don’t think you’re right about that. LLMs are very good for exploring half-formed ideas, (what materials could I look at for x project?), generating small amounts of code when it’s not your main job, and writing boring crap like grant applications.

That last one isn’t useful to society, but it is for the individual.

I know plenty of people using LLMs using for stuff like this, in all sorts of walks of life.