alt Hacker NewsI don't see the usefulness of drawing a comparison to a human. "Context" in this sense is a technical term with a clear meaning. The anthropomorphization doesn't enlighten our understanding of the LLM in any way.
Of course, that comment was just one trivial example, this trope is present in every thread about LLMs. Inevitably, someone trots out a line like "well humans do the same thing" or "humans work the same way" or "humans can't do that either". It's a reflexive platitude most often deployed as a thought-terminating cliche.
I agree with you completely about the trend which has been going on for years. And it's usually used to trivialize the vast expanse between humans and LLMs.
In this case though it's a pretty weird and hard job to create a context dynamically for a task, cobbling together prompts, tool outputs, and other LLM outputs. This is hard enough and weird enough that you can often end up failing to make text that even a human could make sense of to produce the desired output. And there is practical value to taking a context the LLM failed at and checking if you'd expect a human to succeed.