LLMs: The Biggest Mistake in Computing?

2024-12-28

The author criticizes Large Language Models (LLMs), arguing they are not the future of computing but a potential setback. For decades, corporations prioritized profit over software quality and user experience, resulting in slow, bloated, and buggy software. LLMs perpetuate this trend, being slow, expensive, and unreliable. The author worries that massive investments will prevent their abandonment, leading to a computing world dominated by a few giants, stifling innovation, and depriving future generations of high-quality software.

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