Four years ago LLMs were sometimes amazing, sometimes wrong, sometimes a huge time sink when it's almost there and you try to herd the tokens but it's like herding cats.

Just today I had the exact same experience. Every single testimonial is the same as I described above, just emphasizing a different bit to defend or attack LLMs or to make a case for nuance.

The two differences have been: (1) the 1.5 trillion dollar data center build out (2) everyone and their cats now has an opinion on "AI" and data centers. Software is not super amazing, nor are new useful features coming out super fast - It's about the same as 4 years ago plus 4 years of average long term progress as we've seen since 1990s,