LLM edge is lossy corpus and machine speed, not superhuman context
zeeg · x · 2026-10-12
The author pushes back on the idea that AI can hold more context than humans, calling it a troll take: humans interact with knowledge far faster, and LLMs' real advantages are their lossy corpus and ability to run machine operations quicker than people — not context capacity.
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