as someone who is about as llm-forward as anyone out there, this is a brilliant analogy. was equally true of all the “prompt engineer” hype as well from a couple years ago (which i admit i still think does matter)… it kinda makes me feel like an audiophile / hi-fi person talking about how 24bit/192kHz is the one true encoding format and anything less is a willfull (cynical, “Quality”-hating, satisficerist, etc.) compromise. which i freely admit to being one of those people as well.

and in both cases i both “know” that i can tell the difference and “know that i cannot tell the difference”. what anyone takes from that in terms of what it says about me, personally, is a bit of a Rorschack test, but Astrology is about as apt a description as there is… xD

Do they have a golden calf to dance around? Without that success will be hit and miss.

People though asking LLM to output the reasoning steps was astrology until it's standardized and made ubiquitous.

Unless you can somehow provide some arguments against it, I feel like you're the one who is trying to cargo-cult stuff here.

Say what you will with proper reasoning or arguments if you feel compelled, tired reddit-commentary like that helps no one.