I think part of this comes from the fact that LLMs are surprisingly good at logic but roughly about as good as expected on information accuracy.
LLMs are not convincing to me in the domain I did grad school...but neither is Wikipedia, or Reddit, or random pop sci books. And LLMs are basically just summarizing those things.
But when made to work through difficult arbitrary logic (like coding), they are very impressive.
I think this also explains why people gripe a lot about LLM coding _style_, but concede that LLMs do totally fine on coding _correctness_ in 2026
LLMs are not convincing to me in the domain I did grad school...but neither is Wikipedia, or Reddit, or random pop sci books. And LLMs are basically just summarizing those things.
But when made to work through difficult arbitrary logic (like coding), they are very impressive.
I think this also explains why people gripe a lot about LLM coding _style_, but concede that LLMs do totally fine on coding _correctness_ in 2026