I think ignoring that a tool has valuable uses is cutting off the nose to spite the face in a way.

While LLMs are annoying as fuck to deal with and work with with corporate CEOs telling all of us to "Use them or face unemployment"; it cannot be ignored that they have valuable use cases.

This article tries to identify the real world use case for an AI/LLM, which is as an ephemeral problem solving machine, much like google or stack overflow has been in the past, just on steroids.

Once you're done with the solution: throw it away.

LLMs are not to be trusted to write software, but they can generate code to solve mundane problems encountered during software development.