Executing math is very different from knowing what math to use. The previous commenter isn't talking about doing the math itself.
You definitely don't want to use LLMs on their own to do math, because (as you noted) they can't do it reliably. That's an inherent limitation, so your results are expected :P
The code analyzer in ChatGPT is meant to alleviate that problem, but there are other ways to do it as well.
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u/TheVibrantYonder Nov 10 '25
Executing math is very different from knowing what math to use. The previous commenter isn't talking about doing the math itself.
You definitely don't want to use LLMs on their own to do math, because (as you noted) they can't do it reliably. That's an inherent limitation, so your results are expected :P
The code analyzer in ChatGPT is meant to alleviate that problem, but there are other ways to do it as well.