Follow-up: substring finding proves surprisingly hard for small neural programs

yuntiandeng · x · 2026-09-22

Follow-up to yuntiandeng's thread on small neural programs: he shares the reproducible examples behind his claim — the May attempt at compiling a function for the strawberry problem, and a July experiment with a similar substring-finding task that turned out to be surprisingly hard. His takeaway stands: reliable simple-task performance likely needs test-time compute and tool use.

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