That's interesting. I gave nearly the same task to Gemma4 31b as a test yesterday. Write a symbolic math engine in Typescript that can perform evaluation and simple expression reductions over +-/*(). It performed the task correctly with minimal reasoning - much fewer reasoning tokens than output tokens.
Tbh, so what? I googled "symbolic math engine in Typescript that can perform evaluation and simple expression reductions over +-/*()" and got what looks to be viable answers without using any AI model at all. Reciting well established things from memory isn't terribly interesting. Show it a novel codebase and have it implement something within it.
