> they'd fail on any novel problem not in their training data
Yes, and that's exactly what they do.
No, none of the problems you gave to the LLM while toying around with them are in any way novel.
> they'd fail on any novel problem not in their training data
Yes, and that's exactly what they do.
No, none of the problems you gave to the LLM while toying around with them are in any way novel.
None of my codebases are in their training data, yet they routinely contribute to them in meaningful ways. They write code that I'm happy with that improves the codebases I work in.
Do you not consider that novel problem solving?