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Gary Marcus says pure LLMs cannot power autonomous agents, arguing instead for neurosymbolic hybrid systems like Claude Code

The debate follows HBR projecting a massive 2026 agent surge.

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Gary Marcus@GaryMarcus#157inAI

@nxthompson this cracks me up.

me, 2022 on pure LLMs (not what you could do with neurosymbolic hybrids like Claude Code):

3:18 PM · Jun 6, 2026 · 522 Views
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Some users praise the HBR infographic's broad 'fun and nonsense' category for AI trends like agents and astrology, while others criticize astrology as mere hype and AI agents for enabling spam replies.

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Rowland Manthorpe@rowlsmanthorpe

@nxthompson Feel very strongly that therapy and companionship are different things

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infrecursion@infrecursion1

@nxthompson Here it feels like the biggest leap in AI use case is spamming every post with AI replies.

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Harrison Satcher@HarrisonSatcher

@nxthompson Skeptical of this data.

We see self-expression <10% of messages. https://openai.com/signals/data/

While there are surfaces for people to use AI, and ways to cut the data, seems unlikely ground truth is that far off what we see

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"sam" "breed"@sambreed

@nxthompson I have a hard time believing “generating code” fell 78 places while the volume of code being generated increased by an order of magnitude

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Doug Calidas@DougCalidas

@nxthompson “ Fun and nonsense” is a pretty great (and wide) category. Arguably, it includes many other categories on this list!

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David T Kramaley@simplydt

@nxthompson agents will rewrite storytelling, astrology just rides the hype 🤖

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