Relevant: https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-...

On the flip side, frontier models are so good and relatively cheap now that it's possible to pursue your pet research project on your own as long as resources are not a constraint.

Great link, thanks for sharing. I missed that when it came out. I'd love to read something similar about other fields, like chess AI up to 1996.