> to ask a clarifying question

I think one shortfall of LLMs is their reluctance to ask clarifying questions. From my own post [1]:

> LLMs are poor communicators, so you have to make up the difference. Unlike a talented direct report, LLMs don't yet seem generally able to ask the question-behind-the-question or to infer a larger context behind a prompt, or even ask for clarification.

[1] https://www.slater.dev/dev-skills-for-the-llm-era/