Note on 18th September 2026
Refusing to find LLMs interesting is like a geneticist ignoring a real Jurassic Park.
“Being a computer scientist who refuses to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like being a geneticist who refuses to find anything interesting about the recently opened Jurassic Park.”
Simon Willison posted a short quip arguing that computer scientists who dismiss LLMs are missing an extraordinary moment in the field. It is a memorable rhetorical framing rather than a concrete announcement, research finding, or product news, so it carries little hard industry signal.