LLMs don’t solve problems. That’s the point being made here. Many other algorithms do indeed solve issues, but those are very niche, as the alogos were explicitly designed for those situations.

While yes, humans excel at pattern recognition, sometimes to the point of it being a problem, there are many things we do that have nothing to do with patterns beyond the fact that they are tangentially involved. Emotions for instance don’t inherently follow patterns. They can, but they aren’t directly tied. Exploration also doesn’t come from pattern recognition.

If you need examples of why people flat out say LLMs aren’t solving problems, look at the recent “how many r’s in strawberry” which has admittedly been “fixed” in many models.