A repost notes how quickly the “LLMs can’t do math” argument aged

surmenok · x · 2026-07-21

A repost of a reminder that, just two years ago, some very smart people argued LLMs would not be useful for math because they are probabilistic and can hallucinate. The post frames that as a fast-moving example of how quickly the field’s assumptions have changed.

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