Yann LeCun: 'The AI Industry Is Completely LLM-Pilled — They're All Digging the Same Trench'

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In a tweet on April 22, Yann LeCun escalated his long-running critique of LLM monoculture, stating 'The AI industry is completely LLM-pilled. Everybody is working on the same thing. They're all digging the same trench.' He followed up with a Brown University lecture arguing LLMs are not the path to AGI. The timing — same day as GPT-5.5's 'last milestone before AGI' framing — makes this the most pointed LeCun-vs-OpenAI contrast since his Meta departure.