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There are some rumors, some allegations, that I got the chosis. The AI psychosis. Let me just put those to bed: Do I use agentic coding for everything now? Yes Do I think LLMs can be useful for a ton of great things? Yes I have the chosis yes that’s what I’m getting at

You left out the third and fourth question, which are the true problem: Do you downplay the risks/downsides? Yes. Do you spout opinions about how its almost alive? Yes. I have been struggling with a way to make AI-evangelicals understand how wrong they are about the 4th.

They do not reason in the standard meaning of reasoning. They have no framework for evaluating the truth of a statement. They run a very advanced math problem to arrive at a conclusion. this works well in coding and other highly structured arenas. It falls flat with any statement of fact.

They constantly are weighing whether their statements have connective reasoning. The frontier models are frequently quite good at it.

This will make approximately no one stop arguing about this, but just to get it off my chest: Discussions about whether advanced LLMs are capable of reasoning seem about as insoluble as discussions about consciousness.

I get they are good at connecting related data points to generate a response. They can't evaluate if a statement is true. They rely on the dataset and weighting, but you can't math your way into the truth. Especially not with how models are designed to interact with people.