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Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by chicken-stew on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:26AM (#49326552)
Ah yes, so that’s why if I ask gemini for a simple low-resource trick to cast a float to its binary representation it is reminded of a work of shakespeare and suggests memcpy.

Or yesterday, when I asked it for the best low resource approach to select the matching string from a collection of strings for a shell interface it suggested an exhaustive string compare over the entire collection. Because it was thinking of how David Lynch would tackle it.

Re:Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose by kennywinker on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:39AM (#49327561)
David Lynch would simply refuse to compare strings. Which is how we can tell LLMs haven’t been trained on enough David Lynch - they don’t simply refuse often enough.