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Mind the Units: Why LLMs Still Can't Count (And How CONE Fixes It)

Numbers look harmless until they enter a business database. A revenue field says 50. A dosage field says 50. An age field says 50. A follow-up period says 50. A unit may be present, missing, abbreviated, buried in the column header, or inconsistently written as ml, mL, or something the spreadsheet inherited from a PDF extraction pipeline during its villain era. ...

March 8, 2026 · 14 min · Zelina