alt Hacker NewsI grant that there's a definition of abstraction that LLMs don't fall into. But people describing LLMs as another abstraction layer aren't all misunderstanding this. Instead, they are using the term ... more abstractly.
EG: How did Mark Zuckerberg make software five years ago?
He's as capable of opening up an editor as I am, but circumstance had offered him a different interface in terms of human resources. Instead of the editor, he interacts with those humans, who produced the software. This layer between him and the built systems is an abstraction, deterministic or not.
Today, you and I have a broader delegation mandate over many tasks than we did a few years ago.
The way I frame this is that LLMs are not replacing the tools, whic are are deterministic. They are replacing the humans, which are themselves non-deterministic, as in your Zuckerberg example.