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TheOtherHobbesyesterday at 9:10 AM1 replyview on HN

Claude Code isn't an LLM. It's a hybrid architecture where an LLM provides the interface and some of the reasoning, embedded inside a broader set of more or less deterministic tools.

It's obvious LLMs can't do the job without these external tools, so the claim above - that LLMs can't do this job - is on firm ground.

But it's also obvious these hybrid systems will become more and more complex and capable over time, and there's a possibility they will be able to replace humans at every level of the stack, from junior to CEO.

If that happens, it's inevitable these domain-specific systems will be networked into a kind of interhybrid AGI, where you can ask for specific outputs, and if the domain has been automated you'll be guided to what you want.

It's still a hybrid architecture though. LLMs on their own aren't going to make this work.

It's also short of AGI, never mind ASI, because AGI requires a system that would create high quality domain-specific systems from scratch given a domain to automate.


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adastra22yesterday at 2:50 PM

If you want to be pedantic about word definitions, it absolutely is AGI: artificial general intelligence.

Whether you draw the system boundary of an LLM to include the tools it calls or not is a rather arbitrary distinction, and not very interesting.

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