Glorified search engines are what I’ve seen.
Sooner or later, they’re gonna have to do some touchy/feely stuff. That’s when the real fun begins. When ethics raise their ugly heads.
It is definitely a little more to it than that, here is a hypothetical situation to illustrate:
You have purchased half a dozen domains and want to serve half a dozen websites with free encryption on a local virtual machine running Apache2 using WordPress and utilizing https://www.noip.com/ to make up for not paying for a static IP. So, you ask one of the chatbots to write a script to do this largely to avoid the monotony of constructing the databases for each website and getting all of them set up with WordPress.
So you start working to create your prompt for the AI tool that you are using, then you examine your results and begin testing it to see if you can get the chosen tool generate a good script for this purpose. After you end up with a script that looks like it might work... depending on the service you are using, you are likely in for a long day of trial and error with hours of troubleshooting.
In the end you are left wondering if you shouldn't have just done it all manually. But all this falderal does tend to provide a fairly good learning experience, so it is not a complete loss if you finally end up with the results that you were hoping for.
The problem that I have is that so many people use AI chatbots, get back inaccurate and often completely off-base results and then they buy into that and will not listen to people who try to set them straight.