nope, tools/harnessing is what is accounting for most of the recent progress. not scale. no way could you get a pure LLM to do what Claude Code does. that’s why they used the other stuff, too see eg https://
open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus
/p/how-o3-and-grok-4-accidentally-vindicated?r=8tdk6&utm_medium=ios
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