X User Fights Gary Marcus With Receipts Over Tool Calling and Neurosymbolic AI
OwariDa · x · 2026-11-16
A spat between OwariDa and Gary Marcus over neurosymbolic AI and tool calling. Marcus dismissed him as confused; OwariDa responded with receipts: Marcus's own Sep 2026 tweet calling harnesses/tools/loops 'transparently symbolic' and thus neurosymbolic, versus his Aug 2023 take that connecting LLMs to tools is 'just plumbing' and Nov 2023 claim that 'mapping is cheap.' OwariDa's point: Marcus was right then — the plumbing was cheap and hasn't fundamentally changed: parse output, execute, feed back, loop. A typical AI-circle fight over conceptual priority and what agents really are.
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