Re:LLMs aren't remotely like compilers or power tools
by blainehansen on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @02:35PM
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Hey, original author here.
> But fundamentally any metaphor will be inadequate, LLMs are too weird. It doesn't make sense to compare a transformer-based deep neural network that autoregressively generates language tokens based on their embedding in a high-dimensional semantic space to really anything that's ever existed.
> But fundamentally any metaphor will be inadequate, LLMs are too weird. It doesn't make sense to compare a transformer-based deep neural network that autoregressively generates language tokens based on their embedding in a high-dimensional semantic space to really anything that's ever existed.
You might not have read the full post ha