J.S. Bach said something similar about music and keyboard instruments.

> "There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

My issue is not with fact at face value. My issue is with how the fact is often contextually used in arguments to delegitimize and disparage LLM outputs and LLM users.

Yes, LLMs at a fundamental level are next-token predictors. But in my opinion, LLMs are very useful, imperfect next-token predictors.

There are a lot of wannabe John Henry [1] folks out there. Love LLMs or hate'em, most of those John Henry folks ain't beating these machines on a plethora of tasks.

[1] For those unaware, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)