I love AI, it’s pure LLMs I hate. Pure LLMs *are* basically just autocomplete. Recent progress (e.g. Claude Code) doesn’t show otherwise Rat…

I love AI, it’s pure LLMs I hate. Pure LLMs are basically just autocomplete. Recent progress (e.g. Claude Code) doesn’t show otherwise Rather, lot of the progress in the last two years has come from introducing other things – mainly classic symbolic techniques and tools, to offset the weaknesses of pure LLMs. Shame to see the tweet below muddle all of this. If we want to make further progress we need to understand where the progress is coming from; mostly it is coming from leaving pure LLMs behind. Where did all the AI haters go? 🤔 You know, the ones screaming "it's just autocomplete!" and "it'll never be useful!" They're real quiet now that AI is actually magical and transforming everything. Almost like... they were wrong the whole time. 😏

Source: Gary Marcus (X) | 2026-05-18