Speaking for myself, I am equally dismissive of aliens, if that helps. I think what annoys me about claims like this is two things, and it has to do with in-gr

Speaking for myself, I am equally dismissive of aliens, if that helps. I think what annoys me about claims like this is two things, and it has to do with in-groups and out-groups. 1. I am concerned about how non-developers perceive us developers when they hear claims like this, since I expect that particular hype balloon to pop in the future. 2. I am distressed to see developers (who should know better) make these types of claims, especially without regard to 1. If I were more into physics, I'd probably get more worked up about em-drives. As it is, I am enjoying LLMs and consider them an incredibly useful tool, possibly up there with things like GUIs and IDEs in terms of productivity enhancement. But it's still just extra-spicy autocomplete, and I think forgetting that could be dangerous.