Most people do see productivity gains from using LLMs correctly. Myself included. Just because some people don’t learn how to use them correctly doesn’t mean LLMs aren’t helpful. It’s like when internet search came out and a handful of laggards tried it once, failed to get the exact perfect result, and declared “internet search is useless”. Using a tool wrong is not evidence of the tool being useless, it’s evidence that you need to learn how to use the tool.

It depends on what you're using it for, but you may well be holding it wrong.

Probably closer to "You're Holding It Wrong"

I'm willing to bet $100 that a human consumes at least 10x times energy than a latest LLama (picking the open source model so that it can be easily verified) to produce two pages of text. All of this "AI is destroying the environment and consuming too much power" is about total consumption, both training and inference. Inference itself is cheap and green.