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Uehrekayesterday at 7:21 PM0 repliesview on HN

It’s not a super useful line of inquiry to ask “why” LLMs are good at something. You might be able to come up with a good guess, but often the answers just aren’t knowable. Understanding the mechanics of how LLMs train and how they perform inference isn’t sufficient to explain their behavior a lot of the time.