@edgeworth @tito_swineflu yes. it absolutely does. cheaper too. there are consultants who spend all their time "advising" clients to have their LLMs write deterministic tools which it then calls to answer questions.
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Philip Weiss (Phil in SF) (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Sep-2026 02:31:26 JST
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edgeworth (edgeworth@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Sep-2026 02:31:27 JST
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@tito_swineflu I was actually wondering if asking an LLM to write code to count letters and then execute that code against a string would have better results than just asking directly
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Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Sep-2026 02:31:28 JST
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I have made a new superintelligence that outperforms all of the frontier models!
len([x for x in 'strawberry' if x == 'r'])
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