> inherently pointless

there is no shortage of so-called studies about LLMs that inexplicably use comically old and bad models like gpt-4o to reach a strong conclusion about the ineffectiveness of LLMs in general

one cannot help to suspect that this specific kind of academic malpractice does in fact have a point which is to undermine the technology as a whole out of fear, to keep the academic "consensus" in favor of tenured academics

and yet the bitter lesson keeps on getting bitter