There is no intent
May 9, 2026
Prompt boy: Do not try and bend the intent. That’s impossible. Instead… only try to realize the truth.
Neo: What truth?
Prompt boy: There is no intent.
The chattering bot has no sense of understanding, just predictions. It is us who’ll have to bend to get the most out of these tools.
In fact, LLMs don’t really “think” about anything, they predict tokens using statistical inference. People complain about LLMs lying to them, but LLMs don’t really lie, because they don’t understand. There is no dishonest intent, or any intent at all. — The elephant in the room