> You might think--why would someone write an entire article justifying that language models are useful??! Isn't that obvious?!? But there seem to be a (large?) contingent of people out there---in the academic literature, in the software engineering space, and also in the media sphere---who proclaim widely that LLMs contribute nothing, are just another hype cycle, and in a few years will die having had no impact on the world. I will be arguing these people are wrong because current LLMs are already useful.

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