Alright everyone, welcome back! In our last piece, we kicked off a vital discussion: "Pruning, Not Thinking," arguing that Large Language Models (LLMs) are better understood through an elimination lens. Instead of "thinking" up text, they masterfully...

In my previous piece, "Transformers Don't Think — They Prune," I introduced the idea that viewing language model behavior through an "elimination perspective" offers a powerful, practical counterpoint to prevailing anthropomorphic interpretations. Th...

We've been telling ourselves the wrong story about large language models. When we talk about AI systems like GPT-4, Claude, or Llama, we habitually use metaphors that ascribe agency: they "think," "decide," "reason," or even "hallucinate." These anth...
