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I forgot which blogpost mentioned it, but to paraphrase it states that managers won’t understand why you can’t just fix a bug like this in a few minutes like you would in traditional software.

This might be one of those cases, where the problem arises from the training set somehow.

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This seems to be a software bug and not something about model behavior, though the model is in some sense doing the wrong thing by internally evaluating what the echo command should output rather than saying what the output actually is.

Edit: Based on the above comment showing javascript numerics behavior changing, it's more like some unusual interaction with the numeric string in the bash command being interpreted as an integer and running into precision issues.

Merged a PR after seeing this thread so, thankfully, this was one of those bugs that you can just fix in minutes. ;)

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