> So, we’ve come full circle to symbolic AI!

Case in point, Wolfram Alpha is not much more than an attempt to market Mathematica to lazy and failing college students. If that cost, and localization, can be offloaded to LLMs as the universal front end to technical software, it'd free up SWE resources to focus on core functionality.

If Magma, my favorite math/cryptography tool, had an LLM frontend, I could save time wasted onboarding new cryptographers.

https://magma.maths.usyd.edu.au/calc/