> The need for "safety" implies some awesome power.

This is a big part of it, and you can get others to do it for you.

It's like the drain cleaner sold in an extra bag. Obviously it must be the best, it's so scary they have to put it in a bag!

So it's a tool like the internal combustion engine, or the moveable typeset. Game-changing technology that may alter society but not dangerous like nukes.

> eventually enabling people to be 10x more productive in jobs that interact with a computer all day.

I doubt this. Productivity is gained through experience and expertise. If you don't know what you don't know than the LLM is perfectly useless to you.

Are you not alarmed by the startling discoveries made by the hard-at-work researchers where LLMs lie (when explicitly told to) and copy their source files (when explicitly told to)?