Yann LeCun says strong code generation systems are not pure LLMs
gabriberton · x · 2026-08-04
Yann LeCun clarifies that his remark was about auto-regressive token prediction: that's what he means by a “pure LLM.”
He adds that strong code-generation systems are not pure LLMs, because they do more than simple next-token prediction.
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