Richard Socher: Coding Is Symbolic Reasoning, So the LLM Critique Misses the Point
RichardSocher · x · 2026-09-22
On The Latent Space podcast, You.com founder Richard Socher pushed back on the claim that LLMs lack neuro-symbolic reasoning. His argument: writing and executing code is structured, symbolic reasoning, so as models get better at coding within their own workflows, the line between language models and general reasoning systems keeps blurring.
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