"If we lived in a world where LLMs could work we'd have done it decades ago instead of in the last few years."

I wasn't offended but secondhand embarrassed for you. You didn't think up LLMs before they happened but you're so sure about the future nonetheless.

Because we could make up an x86 we should have by 1896!

I mean frontier like ability with less data.

You're doing the same old IT thing where ya act like your grasp of today is where progress terminates. It's cheesy.