large language model
also referred to as: large language models · llm
8 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2022 by Benedict Evans · across every show →
Everything said about large language model, oldest first
Dec 5, 2022 negative
Apr 16, 2023 bullish
Aug 17, 2023 neutral
Evans: Prompt interfaces will be abstracted away inside software tooling
“It seems to me incredibly obvious that what's going to happen is that this stuff will get abstracted inside and away. And then the actual technology of it may be running a prompt that gets inserted into an LLM, but the user will probably very often won't see t…”
Aug 17, 2023 bullish
Oct 29, 2023 neutral
Evans: LLM interfaces resemble Battleship more than document editing
“When you're using LLM, it's a kind of call and response model. You type the prompt, you press go, you wait, And something comes back. I compared it to playing battleships. You know, you call out your move and you find out if you hit anything and then you wait …”
Apr 1, 2024 neutral
Evans: LLMs are rebundling the curation that influencers unbundled from magazines
“Influences unbundling for magazines and TV, but mostly for magazines. And of course, LLM then, you know, ChatGPT goes off and reads the whole web and synthesizes it for you, so it's bundling all the influences back up to the top again”
Dec 8, 2024 neutral
Evans: Testing LLMs on complex logic is like testing Apple II for five-nines uptime
“This is, you know, classic disruption that the new thing tends to be crap at the stuff that was important for the old thing, but then it does something different that's new. And if you test an LLM by asking it to do complex logic problems or masquerade problem…”
Jul 15, 2026 bearish
Evans: LLMs lack broad product-market fit beyond software developers
“The LLM itself Is not a great product for most people. Usage is a mile wide and an inch deep, and you have this kind of polarization between people where this really, really works, and they really, really have product market fit, which is basically software de…”