LLMs render graduate-level NLP research discipline obsolete
signulll · x · 2026-08-20
Author reflects that understanding semantics, context, and intent required specialized techniques a decade ago, pioneered mostly by Google. Now, LLMs have effectively made that entire graduate-level research discipline obsolete, marking an incredible rate of progress.
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