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Agree on the weirdness of “PhD-level knowledge”.

Most of the phd’s I know are studying things that I guarantee GPT-5 doesn’t know about… because they’re researching novel stuff.

Also, LLMs don’t have much consistency with how well they’re able to apply the knowledge that they supposedly have. Hence the “lots of almost correct code” stereotype that’s been going around.

I was using the fancy new Claude model yesterday to debug some fast-check tests (quickcheck-inspired typescript lib). Claude could absolutely not wrap its head around the shrinking behavior, which rendered it useless for debugging



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