Meme: 14 hours crafting the perfect prompt, one typo wipes out humanity
menhguin · x · 2026-11-11
An AI meme: the author imagines spending 14 hours crafting the perfect prompt to cure cancer, only for a phone keyboard slip to make subagent run #267 miss the cure and instead create a virus that wipes out humanity. Bonus theory: typos cause slight mental discomfort to LLMs because they mess with tokenization.
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