Calling these new LLM’s just if statements is quite a over simplification. These are technically something that has not existed before, they do enable use cases that previously were impossible to implement.

This is far from General Intelligence, but there are solutions now to few coding issues that were near impossible 5 years ago

5 years ago I would have laughed in your face if you came to suggest that can you code a code that summarizes this description that was inputed by user.