Yes, it's telling that the "LLMs are bad a math" crow seem to thing that being good at math means doing ever bigger multiplications.
Hey look! I managed to get the AI to fail at some basic thing (after trying 1000s of times), it means AI is failing!!!!!
It's a total red herring and mispresents the current state of the models completely. It's like meeting a child prodigy in maths and then saying he's actually dumb because can't drive a car yet.