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It gives the right answer, but it still mentions not leaving C and G alone together, which wasn’t in the requirements.

It still sounds like it’s pattern matching to give a plausible-sounding answer, rather than reasoning through the problem. I think this just shows how easy bullshitting is—you’re even right sometimes!



Wow, you're right! I didn't read the answer carefully, only noticed that the sentence before was stating the correct requirement. But that last sentence is wrong (actually as a whole it's nonsense).




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