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The Four Horsemen of the LLM Apocalypse

53 points by edward

by schnitzelstoat

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It feels like massive change to the tech industry (programming, data science etc.) is inevitable with LLMs.
Articles like this remind me of the Luddites burning the mills and smashing the stocking frames - sure, they were able to cause some damage to the local industrialists but in the end resistance was futile.
FWIW, I strongly suspect I'll get laid off in the next five years due to the combination of LLMs and the poor economic outlook. So I'm not really optimistic about the changes, but I don't think we can just pretend we can put the genie back in the bottle and go back to 2021.

by adrian_b

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While TFA is not bad, some of the links contained in it are even more interesting, for example:
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-...
https://github.com/0xdeadbeefnetwork/ssh-keysign-pwn
https://lwn.net/Articles/1072007/#Comments

by evolve2k

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Just started reading.. I swear if I start to get the sense this article is written by an LLM, I’m going to loose it.

by 7777777phil

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Don't necessarily agree with all of the writing in this article. But I just spent the past weeks reading into the whole AI valuation topic again (did dis in March already (1)). So I'll try to add some perspective:
Form my research (1) Four widely cited 2025 enterprise AI revenue figures span 40x ($37B Menlo, $1.478T Gartner). The audit-grade floor you could defend on a 10-Q against $690B of 2026 hyperscaler capex is just $63.2B, or 9.2% coverage. Telecom 1999 peaked at 28%. Even after netting only AI-incremental capex you only get to 12-15%, which is still below the closest analogue we have.
(1) https://philippdubach.com/posts/ai-capex-arms-race-who-blink...
(2) https://philippdubach.com/posts/reconciling-enterprise-ai-re...

by bronlund

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May I remind you of the fact that the world was going to shit long before LLM’s came to be.

by Ozzie-D

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by nacozarina

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trying to blame ‘LLMs’ for the bad outcomes of human choices is pure propaganda when willful and pure delusion when not