Comment by roenxi

It is interesting that all the examples I noticed in this article have a geometric aspect (even wordle - I model it as a grid with geometric rules when playing it). I think that the "first grader" comment is actually somewhat illuminating - it takes several years of learning how to navigate in a spatial world before this stuff becomes trivially easy.

The underlying point this article might be that LLMs don't understand the non-textual aspects of a grid. Which is a fair point, they model language, not space. I wouldn't expect text corpuses to explain space either, since possibly literally everyone who can read and write already knows a lot about spatial layouts.