Did someone say that LLM was the final solution while I wasn’t listening? Am I fantasizing the huge outcry about the terrible danger of AGI? Are people not finding ways to use the current levels of LLM all over the place?

The idea that the trillions are a waste is not exactly fresh. The economic model is still not clear. Alarmists have been shrill and omnipresent. Bankruptcy might be the future of everyone.

But, will we look up one day and say, “Ah never mind” about GPT, Claude, et al? Fat chance. Will no one find a use for a ton of extra compute? I’m pretty sure.

I don’t much dispute any of the facts I skimmed off the article but the conclusion is dumb.

Ironically that MIT study that made the rounds a few months ago ("Study finds 90% of AI pilots fail" you remember), also found that virtually every single worker at every company they studied was using LLMs regularly.

The real takeaway of the study was that workers were using their personal LLM accounts to do work rather than using the AI implementation mess their companies had shat out.

Personally I think we'll find something better than the LLM algorithm fairly soon, but it will still be using the same GPU type servers.

If bankruptcy does happen to be the future for everyone, then yes, I think there is going to be a lot of "ah never mind"s going around.

If all this went away tomorrow, what would we do with all the compute? Its not exactly general purpose infrastructure thats being built.