[Applejinx]

This is not a fair criticism. There is _nobody_ there, so you can't be saying 'code the exact same LLM wrote minutes before'. There is no 'exact same LLM' and no ideas for it to have, you're trying to make sense of sparkles off the surface of a pond. There's no 'it' to have an idea and then a different idea, much less deep meta cognition.

[rurp]

I'm not sure we disagree. I was pushing back against the idea that suggesting a rewrite of some code implies meta cognition abilities on the part of the LLM. That seems like weak evidence to me.

[duncangh]

They should’ve named him tom instead of Claude in homage to Ten second Tom from fifty first dates