Reddit debates whether LLMs create new possibilities or just speed up old tasks

A Reddit post questioning whether LLMs, unlike fire or electricity, truly enable new possibilities or merely accelerate existing tasks like coding and research has sparked wide community debate about what fundamentally new problems LLMs actually solve.

2026-10-19 ~ 2026-10-19 · 2 related posts

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