LLM Vision Fail: Claude Cannot Read Time from Roman Numeral Clocks Reliably

deepakns · x · 2026-08-09

When asked about tasks Claude still struggles with, a user pointed out that Claude cannot reliably read the time from a Roman numeral clock, even when using high-effort reasoning. This highlights a specific blind spot in the visual logic capabilities of current multimodal LLMs.

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