Comment by acters

I asked GPT 5 to spell out the individual letters of strawberry or blueberry. It did it correctly by essentially putting a space char in between the letters.

Then I simply asked it to count all unique letters in the word. GPT 5 still got it completely correct without thinking.

Lastly I asked how many r(or b) is in the word. This one for some reason switched to GPT 5 thinking with few seconds of reasoning. It out put the correct number.

I guess starting the conversation by painstakingly walking it over to the correct answer helps it out. Idk it's a silly test