Comment by Libidinalecon

I am not even a software engineer but from using the models so much I think you are confined to a specific niche that happens to be well represented in the training data so you have a distorted perspective on the general usefulness of language models.

For some things LLMs are like magic. For other things LLMs are maddeningly useless.

The irony to me is anyone who says something like "you don't know how to use the LLM" actually hasn't explored the models enough to understand their strengths/weaknesses and how random and arbitrary the strengths and weakness are.

Their use cases happen to line up with the strengths of the model and think it is something they are doing special themselves when it is not.