[visarga]

There's a similar trend of accusing LLMs of not really understanding, being just pattern machines. Funny that a whole group of people get the same treatment.

[jprete]

I'm not sure what your point is. Many software engineers blatantly pattern-match and copy-paste code to try to get their own stuff to work without understanding what's really going on. This is a long-standing complaint in the industry.

[Q6T46nT668w6i3m]

You’re comparing a subjective claim to an objective claim. Let’s be clear, transformers do not “understand.”

[famouswaffles]

They do in every practical, testable definition of the word.

"Transformers don't understand" is not an objective claim and in fact any attempt to objectify it leads to the opposite assertion.

[uoaei]

You will note the phrasing is tautological in nature and does not apply to all software engineers.