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This is just nonsense, the New Yorker helping Anthropic out with some marketing. An LLM cannot plan, it doesn’t think, it’s not reasoning, it generates a sentence in a moment.

Have you used opus 4.6 in an agent harness yet? If not, then your opinion might be out of date.

Yes

You REALLY think you have a leg to stand on??

Yes. Why not?

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Eryk Salvaggio@eryk.bsky.social

Functionalist approaches measure intelligence by how closely its outputs resemble the human mind. If you constantly recalibrate its outputs to resemble a human mind, you're not creating a thinking machine. You are creating a machine to trick other functionalists.

If it quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, is it for all intents and purposes, a duck? If by a hardline definition, one says no, then a plane does not fly if it doesn’t flap its wings? Philosophy aside, the latest models with agent harnesses are astonishing good at writing software.

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Not just software for side projects, but production software. You have to know how to guide it, but it’s only possible in the last ~3 months. How you might categorize what it’s doing is almost irrelevant, as it’s automating a swath of what I do.

The OP may not had her priors updated, due to not being a witness to the latest capabilities. My question was earnest.