LLMs are for code what the Hall-Héroult was for aluminum.
- LLMs are for code what the Hall-Héroult was for aluminum.
- Before the Hall-Héroult process was invented in 1886, aluminum was treated as precious.
- It was plentiful but hard to extract.
- Napoleon's cutlery was made out of it.
- The very tip of the Washington Monument is aluminum.
- But after the process was invented, it became a commodity.
- Within a generation it was used for disposable drink cans.
- Before, code was precious.
- But now, post LLMs, it is a commodity.