I think he’s probably right. It saddens me but there we are.
I’m going to be controversial: LLMs are tools. They are tools with high highs and low lows, extremely poor economics, extremely poor PR and, as with anything that’s super large and expensive, dominated by a bunch of sleazy millionaires and billionaires with seemingly zero moral standards.
Using the hammer when it is appropriate makes your life 10 times easier. When it isn’t appropriate, you make a mess of everything. Same here. LLMs have shown that they can be a helpful tools for fuzzing, helping programmers figure out very complex bugs or rough drafting important changes. The economics of it, the companies controlling the models, the bullshit cocoon around the entire idea of LLMs are more than valid, but they are, ultimately, tools that can help an individual in a time of pinch.
One is more than free to dismiss them, but if a project makes use of it and it is ultimately guarded and made sure that it is used correctly and as ethically as possible, let the developers of that project use them.