And like those technologies it will find its own niches (like XML and no-SQL being used heavily in the publishing, standards, and other similar industries using document formats such as JATS) or fade away to be replaced with something else that fills the void (like CORBA and WSDL being replaced by other technologies).

I think LLMs will find their uses, it just takes time to distil what they are really useful for vs what the AI companies are generating hype for.

For example, I think they can be used to create better auto-complete by giving them the context information (matching functions, etc.) and letting them generate the completion text from that.