This has always been true. The difference is that now more people are admitting it. While you could argue that LLMs have junior level capabilities, they definit

This has always been true. The difference is that now more people are admitting it. While you could argue that LLMs have junior level capabilities, they definitely do not have junior level self reflection or self awareness or self anything. It fundamentally doesn't learn where learning means being significantly less likely to fail at a task class x after being taught about it. And even just the ability of asking for help. These agents just choose to generate unusable code over stopping and asking for help or guidance and this implies that they are unable to tell their limits skill wise, knowledge wise, etc. Frankly, I have been highly concerned seeing all the transformer hype in here when the gains people claims cannot be reliably replicated everywhere. The financial incentives to make transformer tech work as it is being sold (even when it might not be cost effective) need to be paid close attention because to me, it looks a bit too much like blockchain or big data.