> for example just now I wanted to wrangle some bits so I asked it to make the masks for me.
Why do you think it will get that right? You have to do the work anyway to verify those are correct, that is exactly the kind of thing you shouldn't use an LLM for.
With productivity being measured as what, exactly?
The Venn diagram of "discussions about LLMs" and "Idea Guys Talking" is close to a circle in my experience.