Comment by My_Name

There seems to be a focus on understanding when talking about LLMs and solving problems. Personally, I do not think understanding is required. I can write a very small program that can calculate Pi to however many digits I like, or calculate any digit in the sequence on demand, without the program or computer having any understanding at all of what Pi is or what it means. I could get Claude to output that same code when prompted to find a solution to generating Pi, also with no understanding of what Pi is, or what it means.

IMO the ability to provide an accurate solution to a problem is not always based on understanding the problem.