Lorem Ipsum Makes LLMs Smarter. No, Seriously.

You know Lorem Ipsum. The placeholder text designers have been slapping into mockups since the 1960s. Turns out, it might be one of the most effective tools for making language models better at math. A paper dropped last week — "Nonsense Helps: Prompt Space Perturbation Broadens Reasoning Exploration" (Huang et al., May 2026) — and the core finding is wild: prepending random Lorem Ipsum text before math problems during reinforcement learning training produces models that solve problems they othe