No matter how stupid I think some of this AI shit is, and how much I tell myself it kind of makes sense of you visualise the prompt laying down a trail of activation in a hyperdimensional space of relationships, that it actually works in practice almost straight of the bat and LLMs being able to follow prompts in this way is always going to be fucking wild too me.

I was used to this kind of nifty quirk being things like FFTs existing or CDMA extracting signals from what looks like the noise floor, not getting computers to suddenly start doing language at us.