Viruses are to life as LLMs are to reasoning: they often behave like their category expects but not for the same reasons as the genuine article.

as a former virologist, I love the thought that LLMs are the virus of reasoning :)

Once a virologist always a virologist I always say.

..er, a parasitic threat to life and happiness that become an endemic drag on global well being?

Every other living organism looking at human beings: yeah.