While I agree that a coding model (such as Opus) by itself tends to act very shallowly, when it's driven by a harness like Claude Code, the combination seems to be a far more general thing than a LLM. It's capable of consistently making excellent data structure and architectural choices over large code bases. It imitates thinking about anything and it can drive itself for hours.

Honestly, if I simply fed it a sense of presence (I would repeatedly tell it what's going on right now and ask it to react if it thinks it should), it would feel eerily like AGI.