As such, I'm betting very strongly that it's going to be part of our future, and that means now is a good time to start understanding how it works and what people are saying about it and what might come next.

Getting a feel for what LLM's can and can't do is also proving to be an interesting and fun exercise for me. I use them daily, but haven't committed a line of code written by one. I suspect that will always be the case, but nonetheless not using them would be a career limiting move.

I suspect that's because an LLM is just a specialised AI that's not good for much beyond understanding the written language and regurgitating what they've seen before. (That almost sounds flippant, given how much in awe I am at both their language abilities and how much they remember.) There are lots of other AI's out there. They play chess and go, do protein folding, predict weather and I'm sure a plethora of other things I don't know about. They are all universally better at their respective tasks than humans (and that includes LLM's ability to process language.) I can't shake the feeling that one day, someone will create one that can do more than spit out code similar to what it's seen before.