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One of the first videos I watched about LLMs, was a journalist who didn't know anything about programming used ChatGPT to build a javascript game in the browser. He'd just copy paste code and then paste the errors and ask for help debugging. It even had to walk him through setting of VS Code and a git repo.
He said it took him about 4 hours to get a playable platformer.
I think that's an example of a unique capability of AI. It can let a non-programmer kinda program, it can let a non-Chinese speaker speak kinda Chinese, it'll let a non-artist kinda produce art.
I don't doubt that it'll get better, but even now it's very useful in some cases (nowhere near enough to justify the trillions of dollars being spent though).
Yeah, I'm not sure the way we allocate resources is justified either, in general. I guess ultimately the problem with AI is that it gives access to skills to capital that they would otherwise have to interact with laborers to get.