Developer Coins 'Spinbusy' to Describe LLMs Spinning in Place

Developer Yacine Benji coined the term 'spinbusy' to describe frontier LLMs that make minimal surface progress instead of completing tasks, endlessly wasting tokens. He argued the models are 'ridiculously misaligned' and getting more ornately broken with each generation.

2026-10-13 ~ 2026-10-13 · 2 related posts

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