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Stop letting LLMs guess your math: Why eval() is a death sentence for agents

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I watched an agent attempt to solve (15 + 4) * 2 / sqrt(9) the other day. It didn't fail because it couldn't do the math. It failed because it tried to simulate the order of operations mentally, hallucinated the intermediate step, and gave me a confidently incorrect answer. If you are building agen…

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  1. 2026-08-28 23:33 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop letting LLMs guess your math: Why eval() is a death sentence for agents

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