I believe that was just their demonstration. They're calling it implicit code execution so it's ought to be done transparently to the user for the queries that qualify as requiring code.

The transparency is important! ChatGPT does the same with its Python executor model.

It's really weird how it just assumes that the question should be answered as a code snippet in Python.

It's weirder that Google thinks that this is a good showcase of better logic and reasoning.

Yeah, people asking to reverse the word 'lollipop' are notoriously luddite bunch.