@eri yes and that's why #Asbestos still has nieches like high-temperature ovens like in a steel foundry.

And those "spechal use-cases" are still legal because not only are there no alternatives to handle i.e. molten Tungsten, but also because these ain't "frivolous" but have proper casings and handling and not "consumer-facing"…

Hi @hongminhee,
#asbestos wasn't banned from the beginning, nor was #Xray. Time told. So it may with #LLMs.
As to how productive they are - the data basis so far is too narrow to tell IMO. Some say so, some other. Recently a study claimed devs feel +20% but in fact are -20%.
I have the notion the L im LLM fits the B in Big IT quite well.

We have to re-focus from the means to the ends. What goals do we accomplish, not how much software do we engage.

Hi @hongminhee,
maybe #LLMs are the X-ray of IT.
In the early days used like candy. (Kids got their feet x-rayed in stores on open appliances, so the parents could see if the shoes fit. No kidding)
As experience grew, use was regulated and cut down increasingly. But it's still used to this day. For narrow usecases. Applied carefully.

Admittedly I doubt LLMs are as useful as #Xray. I think it's rather the #asbestos (which made wonderful things of concrete possible but mostly wasn't worth the downsides).