The disagreement here seems to be a confusion between the pure model behavior and the behavior that users experience, which is the model wrapped in a harness. It’s normal and natural now to refer to the whole system as ‘the model’ informally, even though that is technically not accurate. That ship sailed a while ago.

Since the LLM is now designed to run in a harness, it’s really not even wrong any more.

don't think it's that deep mate. just sloppy wording on GP's part.