Claude nails the GNU/Linux copypasta meme, recasting base models as 'pre-midtrain plus sampler'
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-19
Someone fed Claude a rewritten GNU/Linux 'I'd just like to interject' copypasta and said 'ok fill the rest in lol' — Claude thought for 17s and delivered a flawless rendition, arguing a base model is really a 'pre-midtrain plus sampler' made useful by tokenizer, chat template, sampling params, KV cache, and post-training.
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