{"id":17934,"date":"2026-05-19T00:08:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megagon.ai\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=17934"},"modified":"2026-05-19T00:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T00:08:41","slug":"why-do-llms-get-the-right-answer-but-explain-it-poorly","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/megagon.ai\/jp\/faq\/why-do-llms-get-the-right-answer-but-explain-it-poorly\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do LLMs get the right answer but explain it poorly?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When large language models have access to tools, calculators, code execution, search, they tend to offload the hard thinking to those tools. The result is a correct answer with weak or incoherent reasoning behind it, a pattern researchers call Tool-Induced Myopia. It happens because models learn to treat tool outputs as the answer itself rather than as assisting evidence to reason from. 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