Yeah, but they can't wash the copyright off of that source code without an LLM as a go between.

This whole cycle is full of caveats like this. Some people claim LLMs solved NPL and are on a pathway to true intelligence. Yet they keep turning out nonsense and we're now speedrunning 80s style expert systems on top of them.

Protein folding, like you said. Material sciences, "AI can produce bespoke recipes to spec" yeah lots of ideas that might or might not work in practice with zero pathway to production.

Statistical analysis of past data might look impressive with 2020s levels of power and compute density. But so far they've added more noise than signal to our systems.

And yet people will insist every day that the noise is music.

When I was a kid thermionic vacuum tubes were still king and the only semiconductors of note were point contact diodes (OA91, etc.) and junction transistors such as the OC71 and OC44 — go look their specs up!

In chemistry, GC–MS was still a dream.

If you'd even hinted to those in the know that something like an Intel i9 or an AMD Ryzen would become the norm within the lifetime of someone living at the time they'd have said you'd lost your marbles and probably suggested you were suffering from delusions.

Fact is you've seen nothing yet, in 50/60 years time the electronics/industrial/biochemical worlds will be unrecognizable.

I wonder how old you are.