Give me 8-12 months and I could create a virus without LLM use thatโd drop all yโall, given the funding. There are roughly 100,000 people in the world as smart as I am, so the pool of those who could achieve something like that pre-LLM is not too gigantic.
However, there are probably 100 million that could complete this task with LLM use. And someday soon, a lot more people will realize that and give it a go. Good times, good times.