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Re:I'm OK being left behind, thanks by aleph_minus_one on Friday March 20, 2026 @10:55AM (#47455463)
> llms are generally useful to understand more specialized / obscure topics

A very simple kind of query that in my experiences causes problems to many current LLMs is:

"Write {something obscure} in the Wolfram programming language."

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Re:I'm OK being left behind, thanks by AlotOfReading on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:08PM (#47456635)
One tendency I've noticed is that LLMs struggle with creativity. If you give them a language with extremely powerful and expressive features, they'll often fail to use them to simplify other problems the way a good programmer does. Wolfram is a language essentially designed around that.

I wasn't able to replicate in my own testing though. Do you know if it also fails for "mathematica" code? There's much more text online about that.

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Re:I'm OK being left behind, thanks by aleph_minus_one on Friday March 20, 2026 @12:28PM (#47456906)
> Do you know if it also fails for "mathematica" code?

My experience concerning using "Mathematica" instead of "Wolfram" in AI tasks is similar.

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