Comment by tobwen

From my own experiments with various models, I suspect that LLMs have distinct/partitioned cutoff dates; for example, historical literature doesn't change (Greek history, Shakespeare, Goethe), general knowledge (updated only in certain areas), technologies (updated regularly), software also remains surprisingly stable - for example, with GIT, a basic command set is sufficient to do 99% of the jobs - new features are unknown or unnecessary, and tabloid knowledge, which is always up-to-date (politics, Taylor Swift albums).