What was considered “loads of compute” in 1998 is the kind of thing that can run on anyone’s phone today. Stockfish is extremely cheap compared with an LLM. Eve

What was considered “loads of compute” in 1998 is the kind of thing that can run on anyone’s phone today. Stockfish is extremely cheap compared with an LLM. Even a human-like model like Maia is tiny compared with even the smallest LLMs used these services. Point is, LLM maximalists are wrong. Specialized software is better in many places. LLMs can fill in the gaps, but should hand off when necessary.