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A thought is circulating in tech circles that may sound whimsical but carries real weight — should we start marking time as before LLMs and after LLMs? One Hacker News commenter noted the phrase naturally while advising someone new to the industry, and it stuck. The argument is simple: large language models have reshuffled how software gets built, how people enter the field, and how entire industries operate. Whether the shorthand catches on or not, the instinct behind it feels honest.
Meanwhile, VMware is making a significant push into on-premise AI infrastructure with the introduction of its Private AI Cloud, branded as AI Factory. The timing reflects a broader shift — enterprises that rushed workloads to public clouds are now pulling them back, weighing cost, control, and data sensitivity. VMware is betting that the next phase of enterprise AI looks a lot more like a private data center than a hyperscaler bill.
And a video making the rounds carries a provocative title — someone claims they were offered money to stoke fear about artificial intelligence. The details are still emerging, but the story touches something real: the market for AI anxiety, whether manufactured or genuine, has become its own kind of industry, with incentives that don't always align with honest reporting.
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