i.e., we're entering RSI and LLMs will help to build their more capable successors under a new paradigm? Fair point, but most people saying #2 surely mean to say LLM development has been a dead end and hasn't gotten us substantially closer to AGI

normally i'd agree, for "most people"

but the author explicitly distinguished between "AI" and "LLM-based AI", and they work for an AI company, where making these distinctions are really important