Yes, most people who disagree with this have no clear understanding of how a LLM works. It is just a prediction mechanism for the next token. The implementation

Yes, most people who disagree with this have no clear understanding of how a LLM works. It is just a prediction mechanism for the next token. The implementation is very fancy and takes a lot of training, but it's not doing anything more than next token prediction. That's why it is incapable of doing any reasoning.