Experts who know what they are doing have long had alternatives beyond LLMs to make their work faster. They have open source libraries, stack overflow, tutoria

Experts who know what they are doing have long had alternatives beyond LLMs to make their work faster. They have open source libraries, stack overflow, tutorials, documentation, simple code generator tools and snippets. The speed up we’re seeing is from LLMs basically caching all those things into a huge mathematical model and retrieving information in summarized form ready for consumption. And while speed is always nice, LLMs are expensive, require maintenance themselves to maintain relevant context, are still error prone, and terrible at true innovation. In a few years we’ll be talking about the big “AI crash” and “what went wrong” when it has been obvious to experts all along. Winter is coming.