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LLMs crush coding and math but choke on casual questions, and that's not a contradiction

AI models can restructure entire codebases in hours but stumble over simple everyday questions.

Apr 10, 2026 11:23 UTC · ~4 min read · Research
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  • That's not a contradiction, and it might reveal a fundamental limit of today's language models.
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That's not a contradiction, and it might reveal a fundamental limit of today's language models. The article LLMs crush coding and math but choke on casual questions, and that's not a contradiction appeared first on The Decoder .

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That's not a contradiction, and it might reveal a fundamental limit of today's language models.

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That's not a contradiction, and it might reveal a fundamental limit of today's language models.

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