You’re all to young to remember the hype curve surrounding microwave ovens. They were all the rage. They were going to replace everything in the kitchen! No more laboring over a stove! Cook anything in seconds! TV shows and endless cookbooks and accessories on how to cook gourmet meals for twelve.
It all sucked, pretty much. Everything comes out warmer, but soggy. Great for soup, very meh for virtually everything they told us it could do.
Anyway, this post is about large language models.