The first microprocessors went into calculators.

Calculators were a known thing, a use case that was obvious.

A general purpose computer could only emerge later.

When you're on the edge of tech that will become ubiquitous, it seems crazy, unknowable.

Afterwards, it feels obvious, like it's impossible to unsee.

The first LLMs are like word calculators.

We haven't come up with word computers.^[ec]