While I imagine I have a grip on what LLMs are, there's something ... emergent? ... in some behaviors that approach behavior akin to responses from someone or s

While I imagine I have a grip on what LLMs are, there's something ... emergent? ... in some behaviors that approach behavior akin to responses from someone or something with a "mental model". That can be confusing to encounter. For instance, asked it to review code interacting with an IoT device API. It unexpectedly warned me a person relying on an app incorporating this library of code should remain careful of a certain health problem since the source for what the IoT device periodically senses can fluctuate between readings, and spikes in that could cause that health problem. I'm still pondering the chain of things that would have to be "thought through" to have that feedback about the code, when — and this is the part that runs against what I thought I knew — this connection, and the implications of only periodic sensing, may be evident to people who stop to think, but most wouldn't think about it, and it's not been written about in any way Google can find. This isn't theory of mind, but it's indistinguishable from the generator relying on something like a mental model.