Large integer precision error in Bash command output rendering

Re:Large integer precision error in Bash command output rend... by Insanity on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @11:43PM (#45910733)

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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Re:Large integer precision error in Bash command output rend... by alyxya on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @11:48PM (#45910787)

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.

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Re:Large integer precision error in Bash command output rend... by amorriscode on Thursday November 13, 2025 @12:39AM (#45911128)

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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