Technology is complex and hard to make sense of. That is why most non-experts have a strong wish for a kind of mythical technology, which you can just pour onto

Technology is complex and hard to make sense of. That is why most non-experts have a strong wish for a kind of mythical technology, which you can just pour onto your problem and it magically knows what you wanted (and which things you did not want). For a certain class of problems LLMs achieved new, never before seen, almost magical results. Now imagine you were someone who hates dealing with the constant complexity of solving problems with technology and something comes along that seems to carry promise of lifting that off your shoulders. Then you know why people react like they do. Recall the block-chain-craze? There were people who declared that this somehow magically solved any IT-security problem there ever was – instead of seeing it as a good solution for a very specific set of circumstances, nearly nobody faced in practise. In reality of course also LLMs have limitiations, e.g. above mentioned ambiguity that is inherent to any magical technology: To be true magic the technology would have to be able to read the thoughts of those who apply it and somehow infer from that the true thing they want or need. Now LLMs are in the end still just very good guesses based on statistical data, that means the guess could just be what you want, but it lacks an actual understanding of what it is doing. Those applying the technology for things it is actually good at (e.g. classification problems etc) will put it to good use, but there will be a lot who will apply it and have things fall apart Canada Airlines style.