2025 Benedict Evans 2025 Spring AI eats the world · page 27 of 59
The slide uses a process flow to contrast the nature of tasks and predictability across three software generations.
Consulting deck · thesis_headline · establish_context · sparse density
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The Rule of Three block · 80%
Three labelled circles: Traditional / ML / LLMs.
Contrast Pairs loop · 65%Easy-to-explain-to-computer vs hard-to-explain-to-intern.
Action Titles slide · 80%Title 'From deterministic to probabilistic software'.
Thesis archetype slide · 80%LLMs change what we can expect from software
Von Restorff Effect slide · 75%LLMs circle outlined in red versus grey peers.
Waterfall chart slide · 60%Traditional software (Deterministic, easy to explain to computer) -> Machine learning (Probabilistic, hard to explain to computer) -> LLMs (Probabilistic, easy to explain to an intern)
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