Debunking Gary Marcus: growth curves hold even without tool calling or thinking
inductionheads · x · 2026-10-01
- @inductionheads quotes and rebuts Gary Marcus's claim that recent LLM progress is just a thin layer of tool calling, not a paradigm shift.
- The quoted author @artetxem argues that even granting the thin-layer framing, the shift was driven by LLM builders, not skeptics who called LLMs a dead end.
- @inductionheads adds that the growth curve keeps the same shape without tool calling and even without thinking, concluding Marcus's "nothing fundamentally different from 5 years ago" stance has been wrong all along.
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