[smokel]

This is probably an outdated understanding of how LLMs work. Modern LLMs can reason and they are creative, at least if you don't mind stretching the meaning of those words a bit.

The thing they currently lack is the social skills, ambition, and accountability to share a piece of software and get adoption for it.

[oytis]

How is it outdated? Principles of operation of LLMs didn't change because they now talk to themselves before talking to the prompter.

[smokel]

I suggested that the _understanding_ is outdated, not the principles.

Many people used to say that LLMs were no more than a stochastic parrot, implying that they would be incapable of forming novel ideas. It is quite obvious that that is no longer the case.