LLMs are not the thing; they create the conditions for the thing.

They disrupt the cost structures, enabling the creation of a new thing.

Back before the printing press, the cost of book production was massive.

The people who illuminated manuscripts knew how expensive it was to produce books, and that's why only a small number of extremely important books could be produced, and those books could rarely change.

But then the printing press came about.

Suddenly things like daily local newspapers were now possible.

The illuminator would look at the amateur newspaper publisher and have no idea how it happened.

"Don't you realize that's impossible? How are you doing that?"

"... idk, I just turn the crank and copies of the newspaper come out?"