What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

@jasongorman Yes! This plus what I think of as the Stone Soup Effect. A claim of magic gets people to try it, but they don't notice that they're the ones doing most of the value-creating work.
@williampietri @jasongorman
"Finding books in babbling brooks"; that's either Shakespeare or Benford.