I agree 100%.

I don't understand why we can't look at the potential, or even current, capabilities of these LLMs and have a real conversation about how it might impact things.

Yet so many folks here just confidently dismiss it.

"It doesn't even think!" -- OK, define thinking?

"It doesn't create novel ideas!" OK -- what do most devs do every day?

"It is wrong sometimes!" OK -- is it wrong more or less often than an average dev?