We still don't understand LLMs today.

How do LLMs actually work—and why do they remain black boxes?
In this episode of Merge, Shriyash “Yash” Upadhyay, co-founder of Martian, joins CodeRabbit to explore LLM interpretability, AI research, code review benchmarks, and the search for the “steam engine of AI.”
We discuss:
- Why we still don’t fully understand how LLMs work
- How Martian is researching machine intelligence
- Why code review is a crucial test of AI code generation
- How precision and recall shape AI code-review performance
- Why static AI benchmarks eventually become unreliable
- How real-world developer behavior can…