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Re: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

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Post by Jean-Papoulos » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

thenoblesunfish wrote: post #5

Okay, funny. What does it prove? Is this a more general issue? How would you make the model better?

It proves that this is not intelligence. This is autocomplete on steroids.

Re: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

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Post by intermerda » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

I tried this through OpenRouter. GLM5, Gemini 3 Pro Preview, and Claude Opus 4.6 all correctly identified the problem and said Drive. Qwen 3 Max Thinking gave the Walk verdict citing environment.

Re: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

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Post by Saline9515 » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

To be fair, many humans fail at the question "How would feel if you didn't have breakfast today?"

Re: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

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Post by danpalmer » Mon, Feb 16, 2026, 7:03 AM UTC

Gemini nailed this first time (on fast mode). Said it depends how you're washing your car, drive in necessitating taking the car, but a walk being better for checking the line length or chatting to the detailing guy.