100% this. Actually a lot of (younger) folks don't know that the current LLM "revolution" is the tail end of the last ~20 years of ML developments. So yeah, how many more years? In a way, looking at the costs and complexity to run them, it looks a bit like building huge computers and tvs with electronic tubes in the late 1940s. Maybe there is going to be a transistor moment here and someone recognises we already have a deterministic algorithms we could combine for deterministic tasks, in place of the Slop-Machines...? I dont mind them generating bullshit videos and pictures, as much as the potential they have to completely screw up the quality of software in completely new ways.