Models do not Have a Thinking Hat — It is Engineering at its Finest
We have reached a point where AI engineering resembles the frantic dungeon inventors of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Locked away under the intense pressure of corporate barons demanding immediate magic, the industry has traded engineering discipline for wizard robes. They throw smoke bombs of vocabulary—reasoning, understanding, cognition—to hide the fact that they are trying to summon a ghost out of an autocomplete engine. Inevitably, the atmosphere becomes thick, leaving us with an aching question — "Are we building actual machines, or are we just singing in the dungeon?" My frustration is understandable. The Linguistic Wild West Many of us continue to grapple with the idea of using this awesome force available to Software Engineering. Marketing hype has hijacked the language of cognition treating LLMs like "thinking beings" with "reasoning", "planning,"..."autonomy." In a recent user group Meetup at a leading organization, such as REDA...