Comment by thomascountz

Many artificial environments are useless to tasks they were not designed for until somebody experiments, tests, redesigns, and iterates.

I'll give a specific example apropos of TFA. Computer vision models were never run on MCUs because they were constrained to the point of being useless for this task, but then someone tried the impractical, and now it's trivial[1]

Regarding MCU shortages, you should be worried about the supply chain, but I don't see the impact really being from running LLMs on ESP-32s, of all things.

[1]: https://github.com/espressif/esp-vision