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> utilizing a resource to it’s fullest at all times is not a given

Typos like this (it's instead of possessive its) used to be bother me but now it's a hint that it might be human-authored, which is quaint, so it's stopped bothering me as much.

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That won't be a good heuristic much longer. A few weeks back I saw Gemini write "Redundant Abstraciton Overhead" (-citon instead of -ction). It was the first time I saw a model make a "typo", so I made a note of it.

I've seen Opus 5 make typos this week, which is something I haven't seen since early GPT days. I have no idea why.

In non-English languages, LLMs seem to make typos way more often than humans.

Which ones?

I haven't seen them in Dutch, so I wonder what the languages that do have typos have in common.

When my girlfriend was conversing with an LLM in Czech, it often made grammatical mistakes or even switched into a different Slavic language (including ones that use the Cyrillic alphabet!).

<3 you know what, I'm keeping it now.

For most of my life I thought no apostrophe was always wrong, since that's how you do both contractions and possessives in general with a name or noun. For some reason all throughout school people would say "it's" as a possessive was wrong without trying to explain "its" was a parallel to the separate words "his" and "hers", rather than "bradfitz's" or "that person's" like it looked like. Only someone in my 20s did I realize the connection and "its" stopped looking wrong.

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