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It is a perfectly acceptable use of the idiom.

Acceptable, but maybe not perfectly.

could be intentional. Implying LLMs are a proverbial nuclear bomb to the tech landscape. but honestly it threw me as well

Yes, the title sounds like somebody confused two idioms. That's not the type of author from whom I want to learn.

1. As others have pointed out, it's a perfectly valid idiom. Check a dictionary.

2. How do you think idioms are created in the first place?

3. What exactly forces you to act like this?