"If we lived in a world where LLMs could work we'd have done it decades ago instead of in the last few years."

I wasn't offended but secondhand embarrassed for you. You didn't think up LLMs before they happened but you're so sure about the future nonetheless.

I mean frontier like ability with less data.

You're doing the same old IT thing where ya act like your grasp of today is where progress terminates. It's cheesy.