Gary Marcus, the NYU professor and prominent AI critic, says Claude Code isn't AGI — but it's the biggest single advance in AI since large language models came along. Yet the real story, he argues, isn't pure deep learning. Claude Code's core leans heavily on classic symbolic AI.
According to a recent source code leak, at the center of Claude Code sits a 3,167-line print.ts kernel file containing 486 branch points and 12 layers of nested IF-THEN...