[bsder]

> Anyone using these models to do something at scale is paying maybe 100X over would it would cost in compute to run deterministic code to do the same thing

That's fine if the person wouldn't be able to write the code otherwise.

There are lots and lots of people in positions that are "programming adjacent". They use computers as their primary tool and are good at something (like CAD), but can't necessarily sling code. So, a task like: "We're about to release these drawings to an external client. Please write a script to check that all the drawings have author, project, and contract number that matches what they should for this client and flag any that don't." is good AI bait. Or "Please shovel this data from X, Y, and Z into an Excel Spredsheet" is also decent AI bait.

Programmers underestimate how difficult it is to synthesize code from thin air. It is much easier to read a small script than to construct it.