What is it about LLMs that bring out so much jealousy in people?

Because LLMs are very impressive invention, truly something new we haven't experienced in a long while.

You have to be more specific in your references.

Because they need to get with the consensus as a baseline and extend from there, otherwise they may look behind

Got an example?

Scale up model —> big wow, wonder what happen if scale more

LLMs are like measles for engineers. Their hard-earned immunity to bullshit is reset.