Ask HN: How have NLP researchers adapted since LLM disrupted their field

Posted by newtothebay on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:27PM
from the ask-hn dept.

As LLM knocking down more domains, theorem proving being the latest, I got curious about how past domains adapted.

Arguably NLP was the first field that was disrupted in 2019. (See this Quanta Magazine article https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-chatgpt-broke-an-entire-field-an-oral-history-20250430/).

How has the field evolved? Especially the humans--did the existing researchers evolve or switch fields? Did new students stop entering the field?

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Re:Ask HN: How have NLP researchers adapted since LLM disrup... by minimaxir on Sunday September 20, 2026 @06:01PM (#49780529)

Good because I don't have to do annoying things like removing stop words or stemming anymore.

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