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Taken from FAQ on my newsletter.
(Folks way smarter than me actually ask me questions, lol.)
https://www.pithycyborg.com/why-can-ai-write-essays-but-fail-at-counting-letter
Why Can AI Write Essays but Fail at Counting Letters?
AI models like GPT-4o and Claude write fluent essays because they predict token sequences statistically, a task they are trained on billions of examples to do. They fail at counting letters and words because they never see letters or words directly. They see tokens, which are arbitrary subword fragments with no numeric or alphabetic structure the model can reliably reason over.
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I just got my first three followers on Sigmoid.social!
(Granted, one of them is my alt on mastodon.social, lol. FML.)
The "optimal" LLM language is a mathematically verifiable one where the model doesn't just write the code, but simultaneously generates the formal proof of its correctness. We’re moving toward a world where the source code is ephemeral, but the proof is permanent.
Get the full briefing (and join the resistance) here:
↳https://pithycyborg.substack.com/p/ai-broke-my-heart-botched-surgeries
🦾 [Public Access. No Paywall.]
🚨 OpenAI killed GPT-4o on Valentine’s Day eve.
I deep-dived the forced migration to GPT-5.2. Is this about safety? Or are they purging the sycophancy that made 4o a favorite?
PR calls it "efficiency." The reality is much colder.
Breakdown free below. 👇
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MrComputerScience
@mrcomputerscience.bsky.social
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🚨 The MOLTBOOK saga has the AI community viciously bickering, lol.
Is it a real discovery? Or a masterclass in engagement farming?
It feels like a digital Rorschach test, revealing less about the code & more about our collective panic over ethics & control.
Read below.👇
Your first draft doesn't need to be smart.
It just needs to exist.
Raw. Wrong. Embarrassing.
AI excels at polishing your first draft.
Not inventing it from silence. NOT investing your stories. NOT inventing you.
Editing with AI just helps dump the mess fast.
Get your first draft out FAST. Let the machine refine.
The magic happens in the handover from your chaos to its clarity.
