Or perhaps you stop being obtuse. There's no causal connection between "using saints for actual tasks" and the outcomes, which is why we call this religion. In contrast, you can see the cause-and-effect relationship directly and immediately with LLMs - all it takes is going to chatgpt.com or claude.ai, typing in a query, and observing the result.
> Well but do they? I don't mean your vibes, and I also don't mean cooked-up benchmarks.
Do read the study itself, specifically the parts where the authors spell out specifically what is or isn't being measured here.
