LLMs basically can't do arithmetic directly, trying to get them to do so is a skill issue. Most models can and will happily write and execute code to do that work instead.

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Havoc 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

What I described is a setup that DOES have pandas & python access and uses it heavily to figure out the excel files. Which is neat, but the output is still wrong

	▲	vonneumannstan a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'm sorry, what are you saying exactly? That a model like GPT 5 can't read an excel file and correctly sum rows based on filters? I find that incredibly hard to believe. GPT 4 from 2 years ago could do this with no issue.

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giancarlostoro 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Which drives me a little crazy. Every LLM worth its salt should just... MCP or whatever the arithmetic of any question, I assume the good ones do.