If LLMs made a huge difference, I would expect that we would have already seen reductions in traffic jams, significant drops in trip times etc from Google and Apple Maps. Use is close to universal, and anecdotally, Maps will take you via routes you'd never discover on your own.

That is to say, I'll believe this when I see it

calls it the end of the rip-off economy - the solution is the single biggest ripoff in the economic history of humanity

Looking at the graph, it seems like it actually shows that the number of rip-offs were in great decline until they started to rise again around 2022 since each of those marks after 2010 are 5 years each.