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The question of whether LLMs "work" (in the whitepaper sense) serves as an obfuscating abstraction over the questions of whether they are fit for a given purpose - policing, medical diagnosis, education, etc. That they frequently work for producing passable code becomes a way of insisting, by the people sitting at the top of the pyramid of labor most valued by capital, that they work just as well for the many other purposes they have been deployed, that we can clearly see they are unfit for.