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I just tried this with claude 4 and ascii art.

The out put was verbose, but it tried and then corrected me

> Actually, let me clarify something important: what you've described - "every point equidistant from the center" - is actually the definition of a circle, not a square!

here's the prompt

> use ascii art, can you make me an image of a square where every point is equidistant from the center?



I interpreted the OP as referring to a more general category of "impossible" requirements rather than using it as a specific example.

If we're just looking for clever solutions, the set of equidistant points in the manhattan metric is a square. No clarifications needed until the client inevitably rejects the smart-ass approach.


I was just responding to the idea that the LLM bots won't push back on non-sense requests because they're to nice.




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