Stack Overflow: Why Intent Prediction Needs More Than an LLM

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In a Stack Overflow podcast, Yobi CTO Frank Portman argues that next-token prediction — great for language — is the wrong inductive bias for forecasting human behavior, requiring different modeling approaches. The discussion is a useful corrective to the assumption that LLMs are the right tool for every prediction problem. It's relevant for builders tempted to bolt an LLM onto behavioral/forecasting tasks better served by purpose-built models.