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I had a very similar thought (which I removed from the final draft)

Yesterday without searching this prompt was able to speculate that my query about static vars on Swift actors was a sign of an underlying compiler bug.

Turns out, it WAS a compiler bug and fixed back in February. I have never found a compiler bug and I'm a Swift noob, but I was pretty impressed. (It's what led me to write this post) https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/78435

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This is also where i'm at with ChatGPT. Its bullshit meter doesn't exist, but it has "read" everything in a way that i can't, so it's bad for truthiness, but it's great for search and correlating items in domains that are out of my scope. For those things outside my scope i ask for links to publication or discussions by real humans. If the source conflicts with the ChatGPT output (which does happen frequently) then i ditch the problem for a while. But it's great to replace hours of my own undirected haystack searching with getting credible needle candidates in a few minutes.

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