Illusion of Hype

Apple’s recent paper, The Illusion of Thinking, has sparked a wave of discussions both online and offline. Some have latched onto it as a definitive "gotcha" moment against large language models (LLMs), claiming they’re nothing but fancy statistical engines that can’t truly reason. But here’s the thing: we already should know that. Anyone who’s spent time digging into how LLMs work knows they’re…