Comment by giantrobot

I first learned about Markov chains in the late 90s when I ran across a Markov chain bot on IRC. The person who wrote it was nice and answered my questions about it. I managed to write my own shitty copy but was pleased enough with myself. Same as you I thought it was one of the coolest things I came across in programming.

Also same as you why I've been very cool to LLM hype. Not that LLMs aren't feats of their own but they're not nearly as smart as their hype suggests.