The Endgame for LLMs Might Look Like Windows XP Hear me out. 1. The commercial space already pays for heavy, local tools Mechanical engineers pay thousands of dollars per seat for their productivity software. Those profits go directly into improving the tools. Sometimes there are cloud add-ons, but the bulk of the functionality is local and offline. The feature sets are deep: automated FEA, rendering, parts databases. You run this on powerful machines with serious GPUs, fast CPUs, and large a...
