You're explaining something to me I already know. Hence the "readjust my brain".

I'm complaining about the LLM field co-opting a term that was already used in daily vernacular. Imagine if people in the LLM field made it so that saying the LLM made a "final answer" means that it got stuck in a loop. Now, whenever someone says an LLM gave a "final answer" we have to divine if they meant it is in a loop or gave the right answer after working through a few intermittent ones by itself.

Choosing to call it "X-shot" was a dumb move. And now we're stuck with it. No two ways about it.