Counterpoint:

“Teach” the LLM the proper procedure for counting the Rs and tell it to commit that to a file (or as a tool call). Then from there it will suceed 100% of the time.

It doesn’t matter if it’s true learning or not. When you teach an employee to do something you give them the procedure and have them do it. If AI can be fed a procedure too, it will do it just fine even if it’s not in its true training. Does it matter if it’s consuming the procedure as prompt context everytime? Hell a lot of humans do read the procedure every time when it’s complex enough.