Yes, LLM agents are "magic" in the sense that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"[1]

But it's not actually magic. Technical people understand that it's just software running on computers.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws

Sure, nothing is magic. You can go look how a simple LLM works and build your understanding from there. But calling it "just software" is trivializing it in my opinion. I can write software, but I cannot write software that writes software.

	▲	jacobgold 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> But calling it "just software" is trivializing it in my opinion The bigger mistake would be trivializing the rest of the technology involved just because LLMs are the newest piece. LLMs are only "magic" because they're built on a stack that was already "magic" without them. LLMs are impossible without: - operating systems - programming languages - compilers - data centers / power grids / air conditioning - servers / switches / routers - CPUs / RAM / GPUs / SSDs - fiber networks - etc