About whether tricky text transformations should be handed to a tool instead of the LLM.
Has this happened?
Yes 78 (72%)Not sure 21 (19%)No 10 (9%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
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About whether tricky text transformations should be handed to a tool instead of the LLM.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
A real intelligence would recognize that this task is better solved with an automated tool and actually do so. ChatGPT is capable of writing and executing Python code, but it doesn't occur to it to use that in cases like this.