LLM mysticism is invented daily; bad engineering arguments will take decades to clean up
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-21
RexDouglass laments that people invent new mysticisms around LLMs every day, and better expert/civilian understanding hasn't slowed it. In a follow-up, he argues engineers got ahead of scientists and made a lot of bad arguments that will take decades to clean up — not something to celebrate.
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