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jacobgoldyesterday at 8:10 PM1 replyview on HN

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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lukanyesterday at 8:21 PM

Sure, nothing is magic. You can go look how a simple LLM works and build your understanding from there. But calling it "just software" is trivializing it in my opinion. I can write software, but I cannot write software that writes software.

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