How did NLP researchers cope when LLMs solved their field? A lesson for what's next
iScienceLuvr · x · 2026-10-15
A reflective question: how did NLP researchers deal with their entire field being effectively solved by LLMs? The author argues that history is worth studying now, as a source of inspiration and guidance for other research fields currently being subsumed by LLMs — how people transitioned, what problems remained, and how the community adapted.
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