This only holds true for local inference and open source models. LLMs are not truly ours today: comparing a firearm which is totally yours (we can argue about bullets etc, which have a (still low) production barrier) to a big-tech-mega-datacenter-in-texas-run LLM is naïve.
Scientists from University of Warwick tweaked the metabolic pathway for methylenomycin A in Streptomyces coelicolor and found that one of the precursors (pre-methylenomycin C lactone) is 100 times more powerful.
Ah yes, fire to rehire via the model training gig economy