Cursor's AI can't count characters in text

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Cursor AI can’t even count the number of characters for the content it writes.

The AI tells me the recommended character count for a title and description tag for a website, and then writes the content based on the copy of the webpage. I’m thinking “this is awesome!”

I check it with external tools, and it’s over the character limit on what the AI recommends. I ask the AI to check how many characters it just wrote. It give me an answer, and it’s wrong. I tell the AI that, and it says I’m correct, and rewrites it. After rewriting it, I check it again. It’s still over the recommended amount it recommended. Again I ask the AI to tell me how many character it just rewrote. It tells me a number that is incorrect. I let the AI know it’s wrong, and the AI say it’s mistaken once again, and rewrites it to the correct character count.

Some days I’m impressed with AI, and others I’m thinking how stupid it truly is.

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That is a classic problem of all LLMs. An LLM only sees a bunch of tokens which are numbers. It actually does not know if the integer 1231 is a single letter or, for example, a “the”.
It just guesses from context.
Classic example “How many 'R’s are in Strawberry?” is always a fun one

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I had no idea. Thanks for the info.

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