I keep reading criticisms of LLMs as mere “autocomplete engines”, excellent at predicting what people will say next, framing this as systemic weakness.

As a person with ADHD who has spent much of his life waiting for others to finish saying the perfectly obvious thing that they will not actually finish saying for the next 25+ seconds, I find this… problematic?

Cue: screams of rage that these are not the same at all.

Still true, though.