AI errno(2) values

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78 points | by zdw 3 days ago ago

14 comments

  • aaronmdjones 3 hours ago

    `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).

  • OhMeadhbh 2 hours ago

    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..."

  • chuckadams 4 hours ago

        #define ETERNITY 999 /* stuck in thinking loop */
  • amelius 6 hours ago

    > #define EAI 201 /* hallucination */

    If only AI threw an error when it hallucinates.

    • yard2010 5 hours ago

      Nah it would just hallucinate this error all the time

      • Findecanor 5 hours ago

        It would hallucinate error codes that don't exist.

  • chme 3 hours ago

        #define EPROCRASTINATE 245 /* exhausted all output tokens with reasoning */
  • JSR_FDED 4 hours ago

    #define EKNOWBETTER 231 # ignoring prompt

  • cold_harbor 3 hours ago

    #define ESYCOPHANT 200 /* user asserted 2+2=5; model concurred */

  • andai 5 hours ago

    I often ran into an error where multimodal models would refuse to operate in transcription mode due to some system prompt.

  • cluckindan 3 hours ago

    207 is a bald move

  • cat-whisperer 5 hours ago

    what about ETHOS : Error it's Mythos? lol!

    • tetha 4 hours ago

      ETHOS is generally reserved for a certain type of error involving slab memory and complex logic though.

      Let's hope that reference is not too obscure...