Do We Really Not Understand How LLMs Work, or Just Their Randomness?
RedParaglider · reddit · 2026-09-19
The poster questions the popular claim that "we don't understand how LLMs work," arguing the research body understands these systems fairly well. The real gap may be non-determinism: when random decisions diverge from expectations, people read it as novel, unexplainable thinking rather than randomness we haven't predicted.
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