One great thing about humans is that we have developed ways to be deterministic when we want to. That’s what math is for.

Does an LLM know math? Not like we do. There’s no deductive logic in there; it’s all statistical inferences from language. An LLM doesn’t “work through” a circuit diagram systematically the way a physics student would. It observes the entire diagram at once, and then guesses the most likely next token.