LLMs Solve Math Problems but Fail Simple Instructions

The community highlights a stark gap in LLM capabilities: they can solve open math problems but fail to follow simple instructions, wasting millions of tokens. The core issue isn't intelligence, but the inability to ask clarifying questions when facing ambiguous tasks.

2026-08-03 ~ 2026-08-03 · 2 related posts

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