> I tell it the secret simple thing it’s missing and it gets it.

Anthropomorphizing LLMs is not helpful. It doesn't get anything, you just gave it new tokens, ones which are more closely correlated with the correct answer. It also generates responses similar to what a human would say in the same situation.

Note i first wrote "it also mimicks what a human would say", then I realized I am anthropomorphizing a statistical algorithm and had to correct myself. It's hard sometimes but language shapes how we think (which is ironically why LLMs are a thing at all) and using terms which better describe how it really works is important.