That's literally what LLMs are. No amount of cope and anthropomorphizing is gonna change that cold, hard fact. P.S. The perceived magic of LLMs comes from the

That's literally what LLMs are. No amount of cope and anthropomorphizing is gonna change that cold, hard fact. P.S. The perceived magic of LLMs comes from the way they cross-correlate all the probabilities of tokens on their context window. Not from their ability to "think ahead". They can't do that by design.