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Thanks for sharing this! I really think that when people see LLM failures and say that such failures demonstrate how fundamentally different LLMs are from human cognition, they tend to overlook how humans actually do exhibit remarkably similar failures modes. Obviously dementia isn't really analogous to generating text while lacking the ability to "see" a rendering based on that text. But it's still pretty interesting that whatever feedback loops did get corrupted in these patients led to such a variety of failure modes.

As an example of what I'm talking about, I appreciated and generally agreed with this recent Octomind post, but I disagree with the list of problems that "wouldn’t trip up a human dev"; these are all things I've seen real humans do, or could imagine a human doing.

That is a pretty lame "poisoning".

This also makes me realize that I sometimes enunciate "the" unvoiced.

Well now you've seen it elsewhere, too.

That's because you haven't unlearned it yet

Two, arguably: one with Apple and one with upstream Linux.

String escaping sucks in bash and other posix-style shells too, though.

Believe me, whitespace-correct scripting is absolutely an issue.

You're right that it's annoying when filenames diverge right at a character that must be escaped.

For interactive use, tab-completion essentially makes this a non-issue, because shells add escaping in the appropriate places.

For scripting, where spaces are harder to deal with, unfortunately there's just not much you can do; your two options are basically to learn all of your particular shell's patterns for dealing with whitespace in filenames, or only write scripts in something other than a POSIX shell.

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Presumably, it already used SIMD, and that's how the existing GNU utility beat Rust by a factor of 17x.

Presumably, it already used SIMD, and that's how the existing GNU utility beat Rust by a factor of 17x.

That's fair; Python, Swift, and most Lisps all use or have previously used reference-counting. But the quoted sentence isn't wrong, since it said no "garbage collection pauses" rather than "garbage collection."