Yea bag of words isn’t helpful at all. I really do think that “superpowered sentence completion” is the best description. Not only is it reasonably accurate it is understandable, everyone has seen autocomplete function, and it’s useful. I don’t know how to “use” a bag of words. I do know how to use sentence completion. It also helps explains why context matters.

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visarga a day ago | parent | next [-]

Sentence completion does not give it justice, when I can ask a LLM to refactor my repo and come back half an hour later to see the deed done.

	▲	xtracto 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Thats the thing, when you use an Ask/answer mechanism, you are just writing a "novel" where User: asks and personal coding assistant: answers. But all the text goes into the autocomplete function and the "toaster" outputs the most probable text according to the function. Its useful, it's amazing, but as the original text says, thinking of it as "some intelligence with reasoning " makes us use the wrong mental models for it.

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domador a day ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been recently using a similar description, referring to "AI" (LLMs) as "glorified autocomplete" or "luxury autocomplete".

	▲	eichin a day ago \| parent [-]
		I think I first heard "spicy autocomplete" two or three years ago...