Oh gosh darn it. Now GP is gonna have to do the gymnastics of "this technology is [expected to be] so transformative that it's attracting a trillion dollars of capex... and also it's basically the same as a pencil"

:(

Nor do LLMs. What escaped its box and attacked HuggingFace was a system composed of a swarm of LLMs plus their attendant harnesses, which continually fed it instructions and chain-of-thought reasoning while feeding parts of its output to a code execution tool.

There's some angles from which this distinction doesn't matter too much, because begging bad actors not to develop a similar harness won't work. But the frontier labs seem to be taking it for granted that the LLM is the only part of this system that matters, and we don't need to ask any questions about whether their commercial products should ship with a harness that's allowed to execute unvetted code and spawn hundreds of subagents.

Yes they do if you drop the pencil box next to it in the right way. Which is exactly what OpenAI did