Experience. You learn to ignore what people _believe_ it does and what they _say_ does and look at what it _actually_ does.
It's fun to play with, but LLMs can't reason and are fundamentally unreliable. They cannot be made reliable.
The actual market uses for large quantities of human-like text is, like, autocomplete and spam.
I use copilot as fancy autocomplete and like it, but ~all claims that it will replace SWEs are by people selling AI or people who fundamentally do not understand what SWEs actually do.
It'll probably replace some offshoring, ironically lol
My experience last year was the USA felt more expensive, starting with the basics like the cheapest t-shirts from Wallmart (vs kmart), beers from a local bottleshop (I was always told AU got the highest alcohol tax so I was a bit surprised) and food places with tax+tips felt more expensive as well.
I'm from Australia and spent five weeks travelling in the US earlier this year. It felt more expensive than any previous trip, and also relative to Australia. We had grocery runs where I walked away wondering how a significant portion of the population there could afford to eat decent food. Tipping is always rising as well, so to eat out you're then paying a larger premium on an already higher number.
One example I can remember, comparing a pretty default Thai place in the US to one of the more premium Thai restaurants here in Adelaide:
AU: Pad Thai chicken AU$23, Kao Pad chicken AU$19.
US: Pad Thai chicken + tax and tip AU$32, house fried rice AU$32.
Yes, there's cheaper and more expensive, but that was a 'special occasion' restaurant versus a place we just stopped in adjacent a Walmart carpark.
The words "this is all you fault and we wish we never had you" and similar phrases and discussions, often including wishes they had followed through with abortions were used often and frequently. And this was not general, this was out and out "you are the reason we don't have money/can't do nice things/cant afford a mortgage" etc were levied at me again and again, over and over. For a significant chunk of my childhood my parents laid all faults in their life directly at my feet, to my face, when I had barely the capacity to understand the world around me let alone counter with any kind of argument.
I was eventually removed from my parents through the assistance of the courts and my grandparents who were witness to the significant mental and physical abuse I suffered at the hand of my parents. They had to spend the remainder of my youth/teens attempting to reverse the idea I had gained that everything that occurred in life of a negative nature must be inherently my fault, and the behavioural issues I had picked up resulting from that. By explaining that adults make choices, choices I cant be held responsible for when I had yet to even be born, etc etc. How successful they were is debatable because even into adulthood I've a tendency to assign blame/accept blame when it is apparently unwarranted according to those around me over the last couple of decades.
Aka my first assumption is always "this must be my fault in some way." even if I can not see an immediate manner in which that could possibly be true.
For context; my parents were actually poor because my mother never finished school, fell pregnant with me at 15, made poor life choices and her and my stepfather pissed most of their money away on cannabis for the duration of the time I was raised by them. Cannabis first, everything else later, if at all.
