What People Think LLMs Are Good At

I recently came across a post on X, The Everything App, where a mathematician talks through his own reasoning when approaching a research task that he's using an LLM (specifically OpenAI's Deep Research) for. I want to say up front: I don't mean any shade for this guy in particular. Instead, this is meant more as an indictment on the way these are advertised and talked about generally. He wanted…