Grady Booch Confirms: LLMs Are at Root Just Token Predictors
Grady_Booch · x · 2026-11-16
Software engineering luminary Grady Booch replied to confirm that LLMs are, at root, token predictors. When asked how tools like Claude still produce highly accurate results, his terse confirmation implies the accuracy comes from mountains of constraints and context carefully packaged around the token predictor, not from deeper reasoning in the model itself.
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