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"AI" returns mathematically plausible results from its tokenized training data. That is the ONLY thing it does. It doesn't consider, it doesn't fact check itself. "AI" in its current state is a party trick.
No matter what, it helps me incredibly.
They're starting to add options to cite references, consult documentation, some of the engines actually check their source code to make sure it's viable.
Now that they've hit stumbling blocks on organically improving, all those things you're talking about can be done with conventional techniques.
It's saving me a hell of a lot of man hours on incredibly tedious tasks that would require looking up individual items in a wiki or the like and then directly populating the answers into a spreadsheet... Our team doesn't have the budget to hire someone to do it, so it basically just wouldn't get done without it.
Useful party trick for me!
Your last sentence diminishes the value of the first sentence. These LLMs save me a ton of time and massively increase my productivity.
Just to be clear, I'm not saying it isn't useful, I'm just tired of hearing people say that the code "thinks".