Comment by gamblor956

The "AI laptop" boom is already fading. It turns out that LLMs, local or otherwise, just aren't very useful.

Like Big Data, LLMs are useful in a small niche of areas, like poorly summarizing meeting notes, or grammar check at a middle-school level.

On LLMs for coding tasks: I asked a programmer why they loved Claude and he showed me the output. Twenty years ago, that kind of code would have gotten someone PIP'd. Today it's considered better than most junior programmers...which is a sign of how far programming standards have fallen, and explains why most programs and apps are such buggy pieces of sh$t these days.