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Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?

2026 SeptemberYizahi

About whether an LLM's step-by-step explanation of 55 + 66 shows how it really computed it.

But that's not how LLM program actually did calculation, like not even close enough to claim variability or something. So what it does, is generated a whole load of bunk, in this example what humans could do to add two numbers. In other words, this supposed AGI can't explain what it is doing, at all.

This is in my opinion at minimum one critical sign that there is no intelligence on the other side of the glass, yet.

An LLM accurately explains the process it actually used internally to compute an answer, such as adding two numbers.

Has this happened?

Yes 34 (32%)Not sure 23 (22%)No 48 (46%)

Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.