Accept something along the lines of a positive account given by an experienced software engineer - it’s useful, it presents risks but also it presents new ways to get certain work done well in much less time etc.

I agree to the utility of finding security bugs but the general utility of using LLMs is often overblown. There are studies that say that 95% of companies do not see any measurable positive impact.

The Linux kernel is likely a special case. But for other open source developer communities, it seems to have some negative impacts, too. And the full effects on maintainability of code will only be visible after some years.