[tobr]

The point isn’t that writing and reading aren’t useful. The point is that they’re different from forming new neurological connections as you familiarize yourself with a problem. LLMs, as far as I know, can’t do that when you use them.

[ako]

Does that really matter if the result is the same, they have a brain, they have additional instructions, and with these they can achieve specified outcomes. Would be interesting to see how far we can shrink the brains to get desired outcomes with the right instructions.

[tobr]

It matters if the result is not the same. The article argues that this is an important aspect of what a human developer does that current AI cannot. And I agree. As I said, I find the idea very convincing as a general explanation for when and why current LLMs stop making progress on a task and start going in circles.