AI is doing to us what I did to a friend in 1996 when I convinced him there was no such thing as 6'1".
"Six one is just six feet. You wouldn't say 'Jaws 1,' would you? It's just Jaws."
@andrew @mhoye @siracusa This reminds me of recently trying to convince Claude Code that iOS 26 exists - necessary for debugging why a crash happened in iOS 18 but not 26.
After finally getting it to accept the online sources, it agreed - for roughly two messages. Then it pivoted to using "the lack of iOS 26 events" as evidence for its original theory, completely ignoring the actual crash I was debugging (iOS 18 crashes, iOS 26 doesn't - seems relevant!).
The unprompted 😊 did not help
looking up unit conversions in 2025