Certainly. I agree of course as to the problem of hype and I'm aware of how many people use LLMs today. I tried to emphasize in my earlier post that I can understand why someone like Sabine has the opinion she does -- I'm more confused how there's still similar positions to be found among software developers, evidenced often within Hacker News threads like the one we're in. I don't intend that to refer to you, who clearly has more than a passing knowledge of LLM internals, but more to the original commenter I was responding to.

More than marketing, I think from my experience it's chat with little control over context as the primary interface of most non-engineers with LLMs that leads to (mis)expectations of the tool in front of them. Having so little control over what is actually being input to the model makes it difficult to learn to treat a prompt as something more like a program.