Why NLP++ Is the Only Technology That Can Ultimately Replace LLMs
| Article | |
|---|---|
| Title | Why NLP++ Is the Only Technology That Can Ultimately Replace LLMs |
| Author(s) | David de Hilster |
| Published in | VisualText |
| Date | 2026-05-04 |
| Subject area | Artificial Intelligence |
| Topics | NLP++, large language models |
Read online | Read the full article |
Archived copy | Archived version |
| Retrieved | 2026-07-23 |
"Why NLP++ Is the Only Technology That Can Ultimately Replace LLMs" is an article by David de Hilster published on 4 May 2026 on VisualText, also carried on NLU Global.
De Hilster's argument is that language models predict rather than know: they are probabilistic black boxes requiring layers of prompts, validators and guardrails to keep them on task, expensive to run, and — the deeper objection — unable to encode meaning, intention, logic or world knowledge in any inspectable form. He presents NLP++ as taking the opposite path, encoding that knowledge explicitly in a language a person can read.