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lukantoday at 7:37 PM1 replyview on HN

"It's powerful, and it's amazing, but it's not magic"

But since its creators and as of my knowledge everyone else totally did not see it coming, that you can now give a vague prompt full of spelling errors - and get returned a working program - I would say it is pretty close to magic (as in we don't really understand why it works so good).

I also don't see how you cannot call it AI. Especially since simple chess engines and alike were called AI long ago. So it is not general strong AI and has no consciousness and no mind and is pretty dumb too often - but the general concept - getting from a some vague text to a working program has some connection to intelligence to me.


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jacobgoldtoday at 8:10 PM

Yes, LLM agents are "magic" in the sense that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"[1]

But it's not actually magic. Technical people understand that it's just software running on computers.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

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