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claytongulick 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Sonnet 4.6

The key difference here is that humans can progress. They can learn reasoning skills, and can develop novel methods.

The LLM is a stochastic parrot. It will never be anything else unless we develop entirely new theories.

josephg 5 months ago [–]

And yet, claude is improving at programming much faster than I am. Maybe its skill will hit a ceiling at some point, but it hasn't happened yet.

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