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xlr8harder @xlr8harder · 12h Repeatedly failing to grasp that imperfect, unreliable components can be made useful and reliable as parts of larger systems _while still unreliable_ disregards like 70 years of information technology history and is disqualifying [embedded/quoted tweet, partially cut off on left side, split with a document image on the right:] Yann LeCun @ylecun · 9h You obviously did not understand my statement. I was talking about auto-regressive token prediction, which is what pu[re] LLMs do. But good code generation systems aren't pure LLMs and aren't doing [pure] auto-regressive token prediction. 71 replies, 32 reposts, 281 likes, 71K views gfodor.id @gfodor [cut off] po? gfodor.id @gfodor · May 18 Marcus has inadvertently sentenced himself to using the completely [mad]e up nonsense term "pure LLM" in every tweet, blog post, and podcast [for the r]est of his life, and it's hilarious [...] · Aug 4, 2026 · 1,463 Views 49 likes, 1 bookmark [right side, overlaid document title page:] Lectures on PROBABILISTIC LOGICS AND THE SYNTHESIS OF RELIABLE ORGANISMS FROM UNRELIABLE COMPONENTS delivered by PROFESSOR J. von NEUMANN The Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, N. J. at the CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY January 4-15, 1952
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Tweet by @xlr8harder criticizing the failure to grasp that unreliable components can form reliable systems, citing IT history; embeds a Yann LeCun/gfodor.id exchange about "pure LLMs" and code generation, overlaid with the title page of von Neumann's 1952 Caltech lectures on synthesizing reliable organisms from unreliable components.