> Why everybody is obsessed with replacing humans with LLMs when it seems like the most profitable use cases (like coding agents) rely on enhancing human capabilities?

The only way to justify trillion dollar valuations is to sell cruelty-free robot slaves which replace white collar labor for pennies on the dollar.

Even though it's a complete and total sham, there's no American agency willing to or capable of prosecuting these firms for fraud, so they really have very strong incentives to keep up the lie.

Would have been better if AI was known as Augmented Intelligence as it's a tool to to boost our own intelligence. Instead the term that promises science fiction futures predominated, and now it's being used to raise a ton of money.

Saying you want to make workers more productive and provide better tools for people just isn't that sexy.