> Nearly two years on from this article's publication, 'AI' tools are still as useless as ever for productive work.

Fully disagree. When developing I use llm's all the time. its far quicker for me to ask an llm to build a react component than for me to type it and have to remember all the little nuances for a technology I use a couple of times a year.

When proto typing things or doing quick one offs, using an LLM makes me 10x more productive.