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Impressive thread from /r/ChatGPT, where after ChatGPT finds out no 7Zip, tar, py7zr, apt-get, Internet, it just manually parsed and unzipped from hex data of the .7z file. What model + prompts would be able to do this?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 3/22/2026

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Key Points

  • The post discusses ChatGPT's lack of built-in 7Zip, tar, py7zr, apt-get, and Internet access and its fallback to parsing hex data from a .7z file.
  • It asks which model and prompts could replicate or surpass that capability in a tool-free decompression scenario.
  • The thread highlights practical limits of AI prompting and the potential for internal reasoning to substitute standard tooling.
  • It points to related Reddit discussions (r/ChatGPT and r/LocalLLaMA) as part of a broader debate about model capabilities and prompt engineering.