Iāve always been fascinated by AI and mega-projects ā and as I work on AI infrastructure, you might assume Iām equally fascinated by the current LLM race. In reality, Iām far more skeptical than most. While LLMs are undeniably useful, Iām not convinced āintelligenceā is even the right scale to measure them against. The analogy I keep returning to comes not from computer science, but from astronomy: the story of epicycles.