Retrospectively framing technologies that succeeded despite doubts at the time discounts those that failed.
After all, you could have used the exact same response in defense of web3 tech. That doesn't mean LLMs are fated to be like web3, but similarly the outcome that the current expenditure can be recouped is far from a certainty just because there are doubters.
There certainly has been some goal post moving over the past few months. A lot of the people in here have some kind of psychological block when it comes to technology that may potentially replace them one day.
Yeah currently the sentiment seems to be "okay fine it works for simple stuff but won't deal with my complex query so it can be dismissed outright." Save yourselves some time and use it for that simple stuff folks.
- ok it works, but it won't be useful.
- ok it's useful, but it won't scale.
- ok it scales, but it won't make any money.
- ok it makes money, but it's not going to last.
etc etc