LLMs aren't remotely like compilers or power tools
Large Language ModelsAImachine learningdeterminismmetaphorsdelegationprincipal-agent problem.
Author: blainehansen
Date: 7/20/2026
Article Summary:
The author argues that Large Language Models (LLMs) are fundamentally dissimilar to humans and deterministic systems, and that metaphors comparing them to compilers or power tools are misleading.