My timelines have increased.

https://chatgpt.com/share/66e53d42-482c-8012-b884-f8fe4c7feb6a

I don't think you're being fair. Given new information, it recalculates. It holds user input as a high confidence source, but that's how they build a user-facing product. The "excellent point" is just it being overly polite.

Scientist by day, other things at night.

Writing complex and nuanced takes, viewed by few, appreciated by none.

Sorry, should have read the question more carefully (maybe me and it have similar failure modes). Still, it gave you a solution that covered both this, and the classical problem. Adding the requirement for a minimal amount of steps makes Claude fail, but in a different manner.

The point is that it completely missed the wolf being vegetarian and regurgitated the solution to the classic problem, which is also exactly how previous LLMs fail on this question.