[lotharcable]

Replace well known, fast, and efficient image to text algorithms that can happily run on my ancient Kindle with a gigantic black box of ML mush that requires tens of thousands of dollars of GPU to run?

Sign me up!

Might as well claim that computer science is obsolete now since LLMs exist while you are at it.

[not_your_vase]

I'm not disagreeing with you at all, but unfortunately this is nothing new - pretty much every software gets rewritten all the time. They reach about 80% of the features of the obsoleted originals before they would be abandoned for something shinier.

There was even some expression coined a few years ago, but the exact wording escapes me... "attention-deficit-teenager-developer-syndrome"? Something like that...

[not_your_vase]

I remembered! It's Cascade of Attention Deficit Teenagers