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[–] Mika@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

LLM aren't good at math at all. They know the formulas, but they aren't built to do math. They are built to predict the next syllable in the stream of thought.

What are they good for? When you need to generate lots of things and it's faster to check after it rather than do it yourself.

Like you could've asked to generate a python app that solves your math problem, you would be able to doublecheck the correctness of the code and run it, knowing that the answer is predictably good.