That misses the point of the post. They have actual uses; just not what they are hyped for.

I, for example, have a mixed receptive-expressive language disorder.

LLMs have been life changing for me. I can write out rambling scrambled attempts at saying things, and ask it to reword and make it concise and clear. Or I can ask it to analyze something I wrote.

But I always write it first, then have the LLM do a pass, then I come behind and study/correct the output.

So not every use is dumb, just like lasers are useful in science.

When they called the function, they didn’t specify any cells. The copilot function, like any other Excel function, cannot see cells that aren’t given to it.

The second argument is blank, so it just Gave a typical answer to a sum question.

This is a male XLR. You can’t plug into a microphone. You can destroy your preamp, interface, or mixer though.