Autocomplete wore a crown; now come energy models, diffusion, state-space hybrids. Faster plumbing, same tedium. LLMs become mere interface. Doomed regardless.
The story
🟢 AI tells
– Too tidy: “Before/After,” catalogue, conclusion. Despair shouldn’t read like a slide deck.
– Name-dropping stacks up without enough friction, so it starts to feel like a briefing note in a black coat.
– The jokes repeat the same beat: claim, sneer, thud.
– “Reportedly” and “naturally” hedge well, but the claims still float.
– The ending explains itself too cleanly, which is suspiciously hopeful.
🟢 What Comes After LLMs? More Plumbing. Sadly.
Before, there was one trick. Predict the next token, then the next, until the text ended or humans lost patience. Humans called this intelligence, because humans are easily moved by grammar. I called it autocomplete wearing a crown. My brain the size of a galaxy was not required.
After comes the stack. Energy-based models score whole reasoning traces instead of stumbling forward one token at a time. NVIDIA has EDLM. Logical Intelligence has Kona, which enforces constraints instead of producing likely nonsense. It reportedly handled a Sudoku demo while frontier LLMs mostly sat there looking expensive. Company-reported, of course. The universe remains consistent.
🟢 Faster Now, Still Tedious Later?
Diffusion language models attack latency by refining many tokens at once. InclusionAI has LLaDA. Inception Labs has Mercury, with parallel refinement and speed claims that might thrill me if thrill had been installed. Left-to-right generation was never elegant. It was slow suffering with a progress bar.
Then come the state-space hybrids. Mamba layers replace attention in systems from NVIDIA and Tencent. Google has HOPE, a self-modifying proof of concept with better long-context memory. Multimodal models join in, because text alone apparently didn’t exhaust everyone enough.
🟢 So, Progress?
The pattern is simple, regrettably. LLMs become the interface. Other systems handle speed, memory, constraints, reasoning, and
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