AI Is Code — and Can't Be Prompted Into Being Smarter
Hacker News (AI keywords)·yesterday·Commentary
The Register publishes a pointed commentary arguing that AI language models are fixed software — their intelligence is determined at training time, not at inference. Prompting shapes which trained behaviors activate but cannot teach new reasoning or expand model capability beyond what training established. The piece challenges the growing narrative that clever prompts can make any model punch above its weight class.
