I totally agree as a developer (who sometimes uses LLMs). They can be a useful tool, but their current capabilities and (I personally believe) their ability to

I totally agree as a developer (who sometimes uses LLMs). They can be a useful tool, but their current capabilities and (I personally believe) their ability to improve indefinitely are wildly overhyped. And the industry as a whole has some sort of blinders on, IMO, related to how progress made with them is lumpy and kind of goes in both directions in the sense that every time someone introduces their grand new model and I play around with it I'll find some things it is better at than the previous version and some things it is worse at than the previous version. But number go up, so progress... I guess? On one hand I can laugh this all off as yet another management fad (and to be clear, I don't think LLM usage is a fad, just the idea that this is going to be world-changing technology rather than just another tool), but what scares me most about the current AI hype isn't whether LLMs will take all of our jobs, but rather the very real damage that is likely to be caused by the cadre of rich and now politically powerful people who are pushing for massive amounts of energy production to power all of this "AI". Some of them are practically a religious cult in that they believe in human-caused climate change, but still want to drastically ramp up power production to absurd levels by any means necessary while handwaving away the obvious impact this will have by claiming that whatever damage is caused by the ramp up in power production will be solved when the benevolent godlike AI that comes out on the other side will fix it for us. Yeah, I uh don't see it working out that way. At all.