> sometimes I really struggle to articulate what they're [LLMs] good at
I think of them like a person with entry level experience and an IQ of about 80.
That doesn't seem super useful, only... that "entry level experience" isn't in a single field. It's in literally everything.
It takes some time to figure out how to interact with them in a way that reliably gives the results you expect, but once you do, you can get a lot done. Taken to an extreme, a mid-career professional can essentially become a team lead that manages LLM-driven processes instead of a team of employees.
I think of them like a person with entry level experience and an IQ of about 80.
That doesn't seem super useful, only... that "entry level experience" isn't in a single field. It's in literally everything.
It takes some time to figure out how to interact with them in a way that reliably gives the results you expect, but once you do, you can get a lot done. Taken to an extreme, a mid-career professional can essentially become a team lead that manages LLM-driven processes instead of a team of employees.