Andrew Ng: asking if LLMs beat specialists at their own game is now meaningless
andrewgwils · x · 2026-11-04
Andrew Ng observes that the question "can LLMs do X better than Y can do X?" has become increasingly meaningless — because the LLM keeps expanding to absorb Y, or something like it, into its own toolkit. Static comparisons against specialized tools or professions miss that LLMs are a dynamically growing bundle of capabilities.
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