[bwfan123]

Humans build theories of how things work. llms dont. Theories are deterministic and symbolic. Take the turing machine for example as a theory of computation in general, euclidean geometry as a theory for space, and newtonian mechanics as a theory for motion

Even for software applications like the Linux kernel, there would have been a theory in Linus' head - for example of what an operating system is, and how it should work.

A theory gives 100% correct predictions. Although the theory itself may not model the world accurately. Such feedback between the theory, and its application in the world causes iterations to the theory. From newtonian mechanics to relativity etc. From euclidean geometry to geometry of curved spaces etc.

Long story short, the LLM is a long way away from any of this. And to be fair to LLMs, the average human is not creating theories, it takes some genius to create them (newton, turing, etc). The average human is trading memes on social media.