[dwringer]

I posed this exact question to character.ai's "Ask Me Anything" bot. It decided to redo the examples, too. The results:

> Lane, Thomas => Thomas Layne

> Brooks, Sarah => Sarah Brooksy

> Yun, Christopher => Chris Yun

> Doe, Kaitlyn => KD

> Styles, Chris => Chris Spice, Chris Chasm

I'm sure the bot overcomplicated an otherwise simple task, but I think there's always gonna be some creative error if we rely on things like that. It's funny though because these results are plausible for what a real person might come up with as informal nicknames for their friends.

[swyx]

try to tweak the prompts so you get to the level of Katie Dee, KDizzle, Kdawg

[dwringer]

I ... sort of got there. But then it rapidly escalated to extremely long and incoherent chains of hyphenated names with "money" and "$" and things all throughout.

[swyx]

i mean thats pretty realistic