'Not useful' is a pretty low bar to clear, especially when you consider the state of the art just 5 years ago. LLMs may not be solving world hunger, but they're already being used in production for coding
If you're not seeing value in them, maybe it's because you're not looking at the right problems. Or maybe you're just not using them correctly. Either way, dismissing an entire field of research because it doesn't fit your narrow use case is pretty short-sighted.
FWIW, I've been using LLMs to generate production code and it's saved me weeks if not months. YMMV, I guess
If you're not seeing value in them, maybe it's because you're not looking at the right problems. Or maybe you're just not using them correctly. Either way, dismissing an entire field of research because it doesn't fit your narrow use case is pretty short-sighted.
FWIW, I've been using LLMs to generate production code and it's saved me weeks if not months. YMMV, I guess