Comment by glitchc
6 hours ago
> Claude launched into a detailed explanation of the differential equations governing slumping cantilevered beams. It completely failed to recognize that the snow was entirely supported by the roof, not hanging out over space. No physicist would make this mistake, but LLMs do this sort of thing all the time.
You have to meet some physicist friends of mine then. They are likely to assume that the roof is spherical and frictionless.
To be fair, starting with a toy model to get a first order approximation then building on it is kind of how theoretical science is done.