# Why intent prediction needs more than an…

> Source: <https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/06/30/why-intent-prediction-needs-more-than-an-llm/>
> Published: 2026-06-30 04:50:11.800054+00:00

Ryan sits down with Frank Portman, CTO at Yobi, to talk about why next-token prediction, though great for language, isn’t the right inductive bias for forecasting human behavior. They discuss how Yobi builds a “foundation model of behavior” using transformers and graph neural networks instead of chat-style LLMs, and what it takes to run millions of personalization decisions per second while keeping consumer data private.