I wasn't too clear, I think. Apologies if the wording was confusing.
People who started their NLP work (PhDs etc; industry research projects) before the LLM / transformer craze had to adapt to the new world. (Hence 'post-mass-uptake-of-transformers')
People who started their NLP work (PhDs etc; industry research projects) before the LLM / transformer craze had to adapt to the new world. (Hence 'post-mass-uptake-of-transformers')