[ogogmad]

Not sure this is a good counterpoint in defence of LLMs, but I'm reminded of how Unix people explain why (in their experience) data should be encoded, stored and transmitted as text instead of something more seemingly natural like binary. It's because text provides more ways to read and transform it, IN SPITE of its obvious inefficiency. LLMs are the ultimate Unix text transformation filter. They are extremely flexible out-of-the-box, and friendly towards experimentation.