Ultra Google search, textbook/tutor machine, boilerplate code generator, context explainer, etc. it's being wildly oversold, overvalued, and in classic capitalist style American companies are happy to trash the environment in order to make a buck, but those are issues baked into the system, not the technology of LLMs in general. It sucks for pretty much 90% of what it's being sold as so people are rightly recoiling from it, but it does have a use.
Naturally, China has figured out how to do it for 1/100th of the economic and environmental cost.
Also in my personal experience, most IT folks I work with are skeptical at best towards it and almost none of them are comfortable letting it anywhere near production. Pretty much as a rule the people extolling it's virtues are categorically the dumbest fucking slobbering morons you've ever met in your life.