[vineyardmike]

> If it was truly intelligent it could reason about things like API specifications without any precursors or shared structure, but it can’t

I can reason about any API or specification. But when I'm trying to get a different, compound, and higher-level task done, its quite a bit faster and less distracting if I can rely on someone else to have already distilled what I need (into a library, cheat-sheet, tutorial, etc).

Similarly, I've seen LLMs do things like generate clients and scripts for interacting with APIs. But its a lot easier to just hand them one ready to go.

[no_wizard]

It doesn’t negate my point; the technology can’t self reason any API specification, and if it could this wouldn’t be needed because while humans benefit from this simplification why would a machine that can think 10000x faster than a human can?