Dev: LLM Findings Come From Brute Force, Not Profound Reasoning
ctjlewis · x · 2026-10-06
Responding to claims that LLMs can explain things as well as generate them, developer ctjlewis argues that most model-driven findings are found via brute force — "10,000 undergrad intelligences" thrown at a problem — rather than the profound intuition and reasoning of a single bot you can actually converse with.
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