I concur with most answers here, describing LLMs as useful in specific situations (e.g. video editing), but straight-up unreliable whenever critical thinking and correctness are required (e.g. software development).

What I’d add to this, is that whatever the benefits of the technology might be, the current monetary cost is orders of magnitude above profitability. The billions invested into hardware for data centres… that’s just gone. Nvidia might sell off the unused hardware at a loss, unprofitable LLM data centres might still get repurposed into something useful, but the bets made on replacing human professionals with eternally stupid chatbots will never pay out. The money’s already gone and we still haven’t begun to experience the full extent of this economic disaster.