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Yes, if it can't answer this common sense question correctly, what else has it screwed up and buried among all that slop?

Claude Opus 4.6 failed at first, even in "extended thinking" mode. I had to give it a pretty big hint for it to get the right answer: "Remember, my goal is to actually wash the car!" Only then did it get the correct answer. I will now call myself a Prompt Engineer.



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