To a software engineer, a (current) LLM is a stateless algorithm that performs an idempotent transformation on a large numeric input.

People who think it's a system that thinks and reasons have confused the agentic harness, perhaps forgotten(?) layer0[0] is a seed, the inference engine sets to a concrete value when the caller leaves it as 0.

They probably work on (current) AI software by repeatedly writing prompts like "DON'T READ THE FILES IN /tmp. SOME OF THE FILES IN /tmp ARE VERY LARGE. DUE TO THEIR SIZE, YOU ARE NOT TO READ THE FILES IN /tmp." and wondering why the model becomes obsessed with files in /tmp 100k tokens into every conversation.