alt Hacker News> The technology cannot create new concepts/abstractions, and so fails at abstraction. Reliably.
That statement is way too strong, as it implies either that humans cannot create new concepts/abstractions, or that magic exists.
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csomar • 01/16/2026
Most humans can't. Some humans do by process of hallucination.
reactordev • 01/16/2026
That’s a straw man argument if I’ve ever seen one. He was talking about technology. Not humans.
I think both your statement and their statement are too strong. There is no reason to think LLMs can do everything a human can do, which seems to be your implication. On the other hand, the technology is still improving, so maybe it’ll get there.