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Code is a tiny part of "business".

Most business is correspondence with people who want money from you and people you want money from.

The issue is that correspondence is legally enforceable [0]. LLM's are good and getting better, but if LLMs are giving enforceable undertakings, you want to very sure they are not going to promise something that will send the company broke.

I'm not sure what risk a businessman is willing to accept, but I'd be asking for probabilities under once in a millennium. The latest round has improved considerably in their ability to follow instructions (thank $DEITY), but they aren't anywhere near that yet.

[0] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240222-air-canada-chatb...

People who demand risks to be lowered to once-a-millennium are not the type to go start or even run businesses.

There’s nothing wrong with that, but starting a business means fading several once-a-year risks of failure and running even an established one means facing several once-a-century risks every year.

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