Comment by hansmayer

I am not disputing that it improves the tools. But looking at the entire picture, the whole concept of using LLMs as a general purpose utility is a dead-end. Just the basic arithmetics of it does not add up. If you told your manager you had spent 20,000 dollars on a project, generating a pre-tax revenue of 100 dollars, i.e. creating net loss of 19,900 USD, you'd be fired right away. But somehow the GenAI industry has a similar investment-to-revenue ratio on a much larger scale and still the wishful thinking is in it's fifth year? I get it that people want to get in on the ride but just that having to add so much on top of it, constantly new plugins, tools, concepts, whatever all so that we can avoid seeing this for what it is - building TVs with vaccuum tubes, when what we desparately need are transistors, not improved vaccuum tubes. Just as we did not need faster horses in the era of Ford T-Model.