I can't blame people for attaching "uses AI" to their pitch to get funding. But I will blame people giving them money for not being able to tell the difference between something revolutionary and something that never needed AI in the first place.
As an ML engineer and AI developer, I don’t see the real value at all, not to mention the added cost of using LLM
I unwittingly fell into low-level coding for DL software stacks about 7 years ago.
At first I was merely uninterested in the topic, compared to my teammates.
Now I think there's a serious possibility that LLMs and other new DL capabilities will be a net negative for society. I'm actively trying to get other work.
I know that if I don't do the work others gladly will, but the status quo seers my conscience.