Comment by dofm

Putting aside agentic coding, that is to say, if you judge LLMs as a consumer technology (an old-fashioned idea for the inward-looking tech industry admittedly), then open weights LLMs, even quite small ones like Gemma 4, can likely already satisfy 90% of applications with a bit of help from search and browse tools.

Much of the arms race for better LLMs exists to satisfy only the IT industry's needs.