You want a totally gonzo peek behind the curtain of how an LLM works? Ask it to...

You want a totally gonzo peek behind the curtain of how an LLM works? Ask it to write a trivia question. Any human immediately gets the pattern (at least if they’ve passed middle school and wasted their lives watching reality TV like I have). But GPT-5 melts down like a Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark. It exposes the difference between reasoning and pattern matching in a really stark way.