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AlphaGo.

>>coffee+(OP)
A board game has a much narrower scope than programming in general.

>>giovan+I5
Thus this was in 2016. 9 years have passed.

>>cft+Ha
LLMs and AlphaGo don't work at all similarly, since LLMs don't use search.

I think everyone expected AlphaGo to be the research direction to pursue, which is why it was so surprising that LLMs turned out to work.