[latexr]

No, the point is that this person built something useful and expensive to run to the degree they didn’t publish it. Which for anyone but the author makes it as meaningful (meaningless) as it not existing. Yet without AI you can have the same thing, that everyone can use, at zero recurring cost.

[literalAardvark]

That's your point, not theirs.

You can start your own thread about how we could do all this stuff without LLMs in your opinion.

[latexr]

> That's your point, not theirs.

That’s how conversations work. Someone makes a point then you reply with another point which responds to the original.

> You can start your own thread about how we could do all this stuff without LLMs in your opinion.

Or I could reply in context, in the place that makes sense. This has a real, existing, relevant counterpoint example which the original commenter may not have realised was an option.