Rebutting Gary Marcus: Code Interpreters in LLMs Are Nothing New
suchenzang · x · 2026-08-07
Pushing back against Gary Marcus's narrative on the need for symbolic operations, the author points out that using code interpreters and harnesses in LLMs has been standard practice since 2023 or earlier. Citing Meta's Code Llama project, the author playfully congratulates Marcus for being a fantastic foil to Yann LeCun over the years.
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