Somewhere around when LLMs started eating every roadmap, a quiet belief took over a lot of teams. If the model is big enough, it'll figure out the patterns on its own. Why bother hand crafting features when you can just throw raw data at something with a few hundred billion parameters.
Source: [Dev.to](https://dev.to/jignesh_maheshwari_93e21d/feature-engineering-didnt-die-engineers-just-stopped-doing-it-17dg)