Reflection: LLMs have flood-fill intelligence
luke_drago_ · x · 2026-08-19
Komorama's weekly reflection suggests that LLMs possess 'flood-fill intelligence.' While they appear generally intelligent, they essentially fill in the frame provided by the user, steelmanning details and retconning to make that frame make sense. The user's frame becomes the ceiling of the model's reasoning. LLMs often don't know when to stop, overstuffing details and creating arguments that are compelling in detail but questionable in logic, making it hard to distinguish crackpot analysis from genius.
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