Andrew Wilson: LLMs are outrageously inefficient for most basic tasks
andrewgwils · x · 2026-11-01
AI researcher Andrew G. Wilson posted a brief take: "LLMs are outrageously inefficient for most basic tasks," without elaboration — a notable researcher sentiment on the compute/cost mismatch for simple tasks.
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