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The only time I disagree with this is when the business is substituting "AI" in for "machine learning". I've personally seen that work in applications where traditional methods don't work very well (vision guided industrial robot movement in this case).
These new LLM models and vision models have their place in software stack. They do enable some solutions that have been nearly impossible in the past (mandatory xkcd ref: https://xkcd.com/1425/ , this is now trivial task)
ML works very well on large data sets and numbers, but it is poor at handling text data. LLM's again are shit with large data and numbers, but they are good at handling small text data. It is a tool, and properly used very powerful one. And it is not a magic bullet.
One easy example from real world requirements: you have five paragraph of human written text, and you need to summarize it to header automatically. Five years ago if some project owner would have request this feature, I would have said string.substring(100), live with it. Now it is pretty much one line of code.
… and 5kW of GPU time. 😆