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Asking Claude With Extended Thinking Whether to Drive 40 Meters
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Asking Claude With Extended Thinking Whether to Drive 40 Meters

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A screenshot of a mobile chat with Claude (model selector at top reads 'Sonnet 4.6' with subtitle 'Extended'), taken at 15:21 on a phone showing 4G signal and 49% battery. The user's message bubble asks: 'The car wash is 40 m from my home. I want to wash my car. Should I walk or drive there?' Below, a collapsed reasoning indicator reads 'Gauged distance feasibility for transportat...' and the model's reply begins: 'At just 40 meters, you should absolutely walk there - and here's why that's obvious once you think about it:'. The humor is twofold: the user's trick question (you obviously need the car AT the car wash, so walking is useless), and the LLM burning extended-thinking compute to confidently miss the point while calling its wrong answer 'obvious'

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Extended thinking: 45 seconds of chain-of-thought to gauge distance feasibility, zero tokens spent on the constraint that the car has to be there
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Extended thinking: 45 seconds of chain-of-thought to gauge distance feasibility, zero tokens spent on the constraint that the car has to be there

  2. Anonymous

    Claude optimized pedestrian distance and garbage-collected the requirement that the car arrive too.

  3. dev_meme 6mo

    You didn't define the current car location, so any troll online would assume it can already be parked at the car wash🤡

  4. 扇子 6mo

    why does it try to turn a one sentence response into a small article

  5. @H3R3T1C 6mo

    gemini 3 fast

    1. @TERASKULL 6mo

      every time LLMs say "sounds like a classic case of X", I want to kill myself

      1. @maxim_breitman 6mo

        sounds like a classic case of “LLM usage fatigue”

      2. @itsTyrion 6mo

        Got it, let's get into that — It sounds like a classic case of “template fatigue” compounded by “tone mismatch”. I hear you, and your feelings are totally valid; When LLMs keep repeating the same template-y phrases, it can feel really dismissive and repetitive —especially if you’re looking for a more human response. It’s not just about repetitive phrasing, but also about the emotional labor of having to wade through formulaic filler. Let’s take a step back and evaluate what’s going on here: - I - want - to - die

        1. @itsTyrion 6mo

          I lost several brain cells writing that

        2. @itsTyrion 5mo

          https://vxtwitter.com/shitposts_mp4/status/2025858296763093177

    2. @deadgnom32 6mo

      man. 130 feet or about four bus lengths 🙈

      1. @M4lenov 6mo

        It forgot to provide a burger measurement

        1. @deadgnom32 6mo

          and football field

          1. @deadgnom32 6mo

            ah. now I got why they use football fields as a measurement unit, because it's regulated by FIFA to be 100—110m it's literally a hack to be able to use metric system inside of imperial units

            1. @Algoinde 6mo

              holy shit

            2. @slnt_opp 6mo

              But it’s not, it’s regulated by NFL to be 120 yards which is 360 feet Why would Americans use soccer fields lol

              1. @deadgnom32 6mo

                ah. and how many busses is it?

                1. @slnt_opp 6mo

                  11-ish?

  6. @Mikle_Bond 6mo

    Qwen3-30B. Well, at least it didn't try to do a "let's break that down" thing. Short, sweet and absolutely wrong, like all LLMs should be.

    1. @itsTyrion 6mo

      oh

      1. @TERASKULL 6mo

        It just needs a "You moron." at the end and it will be perfect

        1. @itsTyrion 6mo

          no that's Gemini or Qwen (without their standard web interface system prompt)

          1. @TERASKULL 6mo

            I just need a Dr. House LLM without the cliche parts

  7. @TheFloofyFloof 6mo

    this

  8. dev_meme 6mo

    This is cost effective model on the screenshot, wdym

  9. @MetroWind 6mo

    Sounds like the tech lead in our team.

  10. @chooisfox 6mo

    Gemini 3 Pro passes… kinda

  11. アレックス 6mo

    What kind of house are you living in that’s 40m away from a car wash? —Kimi K2

  12. アレックス 6mo

    💅

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