Comment by vendiddy

I think they are capable of doing it, but it requires prompting.

I constantly have to instruct them: - Go step by step, don't skip ahead until we're done with a step - Don't make assumptions, if you're unsure ask questions to clarify

And they mostly do this.

But this needs to be default behavior!

I'm surprised that, unless prompted, LLMs never seem to ask follow-up questions as a smart coworker might.