I'll say it one more time, so that I don't get labeled a Luddite or something: LLMs, as any other tool, are useful and have their place, and I am a geek at heart (I was lucky enough that my first computer was a 286, and to have learned from professors that actually programmed by punching cards). I also use LLMs very frequently, although I try to be very careful.
That said, the usefulness any tool, including that of LLMs, should be determined by user adoption, not by forcing them down our throat because some CEO has gone deep down the sunken-cost fallacy.
And please stop telling me how this amazing new technology is democratizing this or that (programming, music, or what else): IT IS NOT. All those things were already available to anyone with a little time and the will to learn. Democratization happens through public infrastructure, such as libraries and public schools, not through private companies eating up every single bit of computational power they can lay their fat fingers on, not to mention energy, water, and clean air (yes, clean air, because they pollute the air both with noxious fumes and unhealthy levels of infra-sound [1]).
Before the "AI boom" computers had become an actual commodity in a big part of the world: one could afford to buy reasonably priced notebooks with which to learn almost anything they desired. Now everything has gone up in price by 3 to 4 times, and a lot of people can't afford to spend that much. This is the opposite of democratization, this is concentration of power and wealth.