Comment by tonii141

a) Still true: vanilla LLMs can’t do math, they pattern-match unless you bolt on tools.

b) Still true: next-token prediction isn’t planning.

c) Still true: error accumulation is mitigated, not eliminated. Long-context quality still relies on retrieval, checks, and verifiers.

Yann’s claims were about LLMs as LLMs. With tooling, you can work around limits, but the core point stands.