The contortions people will go through to defend a technology or concept they like blows my mind. Irrational exuberance is one thing, but denial of history in order to lower the bar for the next big thing really irritates me for some reason.

Computing was revolutionary, both at enterprise and personal scale (separately). I would say smartphones were revolutionary. The internet was revolutionary, though it did take a while to get going at scale.

Blockchain was not revolutionary.

I think LLM-based AI is trending towards blockchain, not general purpose computing. In order for it to be revolutionary, it needs to objectively and quantifiably add value to the lives (professionally or personally) of a significant piece of the population. I don't see how that happens with LLMs. They aren't reliable enough and don't seem to have any path towards reasoning or understanding.