Comment by intended

> If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck,or something so close to a duck that we'd be better off calling it that.

Saying “LLMs match understanding well enough”, is to make the same core error if we were to say “rote learning is good enough” in a conversation about understanding a subject.

The issue is that they can pass the test(s), but they dont understand the work. This is the issue with a purely utilitarian measure of output.