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by mhalle 41 days ago
Early LLMs typically tried to do multiplication "in their head" by recall.

Now most LLMs do multiplication using a tool call to a programming language, akin to a person reaching for a calculator rather than relying on a learned table or working the problem out mentally.

The high level comparison between what LLMs do and what humans do" for this example is fairly parallel.

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How long until LLMs are prompting LLMs to write a response to their user query?

Actually, this happens already in a modular way AFAIK…

This already happens with -- e.g. -- Claude Code spawnining parallel agents and then collating their results.
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