LLMs are good as a guide to point you in the right direction. They’re about the same kind of tool as a search engine. They can help point you in the right direction and are more flexible in answering questions.

Much like search engines, you need to be aware of the risks and limitations of the tools. Google with give you links that are crawling with browser exploiting malware and LLMs will give you answers that are wrong or directions that are destructive to follow (like incorrect terminal commands).

We’re a bit off from the ability to have models which can tackle large projects like coding complete applications, but they’re good at some tasks.

I think the issue is when people try to use them to replace having to learn instead of as a tool to help you learn.