He’s been saying that LLM isn’t a “universal solvent”, not as a “recent claim”.

''' In my 2018 Deep Learning: A Critical Appraisal for example, I wrote

Despite all of the problems I have sketched, I don’t think that we need to abandon deep learning.

Rather, we need to reconceptualize it: not as a universal solvent, but simply as one tool among many, a power screwdriver in a world in which we also need hammers, wrenches, and pliers, not to mentions chisels and drills, voltmeters, logic probes, and oscilloscopes. '''