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0 pointsjohnxie9mo ago0 comments

LLMs aren’t perfect, but calling them a “cult” misses the point. They’re not just fancy heuristics, they’re general-purpose function approximators that can reason, plan, and adapt across a huge range of tasks with zero task-specific code.

Sure, it’s not AGI. But dismissing the progress as just marketing ignores the fact that we’re already seeing them handle complex workflows, multi-step reasoning, and real-time interaction better than any previous system.

This is more than just Lisp nostalgia. Something real is happening.

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Joel_Mckay9mo ago

Sure, I have seen the detrimental impact on some teams, and it does not play out as Marketers suggest.

The trick is in people seeing meaning in well structured nonsense, and not understanding high dimension vector spaces simply abstracting associative false equivalency with an inescapable base error rate.

I wager Neuromorphic computing is likely more viable than LLM cults. The LLM subject is incredibly boring once your tear it apart, and less interesting than watching Opuntia cactus grow. Have a wonderful day =3

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0 pointsjohnxie9mo ago0 comments

This is more than just Lisp nostalgia. Something real is happening.

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Joel_Mckay9mo ago

Sure, I have seen the detrimental impact on some teams, and it does not play out as Marketers suggest.

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