I just asked GPT-4:
What’s 7 * 8 divided by 10, to the power of 3?
Its reply:
Let’s break this down step by step:
First, multiply 7 and 8 to get 56.
Then, divide 56 by 10 to get 5.6.
Finally, raise 5.6 to the power of 3 (5.6 * 5.6 * 5.6) to get 175.616.
So, 7 * 8 divided by 10, to the power of 3 equals 175.616
These LLMs generally and GPT-4 in particular really shine if you supply enough and the right context. Give it some code to refactor, to turn hastily slapped together code into idiomatic and well written code, align a code snippet to a different design pattern etc. Platforms like https://phind.com pull in web search results as you interact with them to give you more correct and current information etc.
LLMs are by no means a panacea and have serious limitations, but they are also magic for certain tasks and something I would be very, very sad to miss in my day to day.
Let’s just hope for Gabe to live a long life still. Valve is a private company and not nearly as much in danger for enshittification as a public company would be.