I like the analogy, I have a lot of trouble explaining to people that LLMs are anything more than just a “most likely next token” predictor. Because that is exactly what an LLM is, but saying it that way is so abstract that it abstracts away everything that is actually interesting about them lol. It’s like saying a computer is “just” a collection of switches than can be a 1 or 0. Which, yeah, base level, not wrong, but also not all that useful to someone actually curious about what they are and what they can do.