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AI errno(2) values

https://www.netmeister.org/blog/ai-errno.html
`errno` is a userland concept; the kernel returns negative error numbers that libc then turns into -1 and sets errno. Thus the correct manpage is errno(3).
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As a long time emacs user, I appreciated the inclusion of EMACS as an error code. When I moved from TECO to gnu emacs in to 80s, elisp was an advance. Now I have a perpetual todo item... "rewrite emacs in fennel or janet or even minimalisp."

"What was deluxe is now debris..."

    #define ETERNITY 999 /* stuck in thinking loop */
> #define EAI 201 /* hallucination */

If only AI threw an error when it hallucinates.

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    #define EPROCRASTINATE 245 /* exhausted all output tokens with reasoning */
#define ESYCOPHANT 200 /* user asserted 2+2=5; model concurred */
#define EKNOWBETTER 231 # ignoring prompt
I often ran into an error where multimodal models would refuse to operate in transcription mode due to some system prompt.
207 is a bald move
what about ETHOS : Error it's Mythos? lol!
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