Even llms are useful for coding, if you keep it in its auto complete lane instead of expecting it to think for you

Just don't pay a capitalist for it, a tiny, power efficient model that runs on your own pc is more than enough

LLMs are part of AI, so I think you're maybe confused. You can say anything is just fancy anything, that doesn't really hold any weight. You are familiar with autocomplete, so you try to contextualize LLMs in your narrow understanding of this tech. That's fine, but you should actually read up because the whole field is really neat.

Actual AI doesn't exist

FTFY.

Unlike LLM which is just fancy autocomplete.

You might keep hearing people say this, but that doesn't make it true (and it isn't true).