Andriy Burkov's morbid metaphor: chatting with an LLM is like reanimating a corpse each turn
burkov · x · 2026-09-05
Reacting to Gary Marcus, Andriy Burkov offered a darkly funny metaphor for LLM inference: talking to an LLM is like digging up a dead body, putting it on life support to let it talk, then switching the support off and burying it again until the next turn — a vivid jab at the stateless, per-turn nature of transformer inference.
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