The Car Wash Problem: A variable isolation study on prompt architecture
Most AI products inject facts and hope reasoning follows. But intelligence is not measured by how much a model holds in its context window. It is measured by knowing to pick up the keys before leaving the house.Last week, the "Car Wash problem" (50m away, walk or drive?) went viral here on HN. Every major LLM failed because they missed the implicit physical constraint: the car must be...