[mdaniel]

matches my experience with LLMs: forcing the onus of accuracy upon the code reviewer

    >>> alpha = ["a", "b", "c"]
    >>> def load_files_in_parallel(filenames):
    ...     for _ in range(len(filenames)):
    ...         _ = filenames.pop()
    ... 
    >>> load_files_in_parallel(alpha)
    >>> alpha
    []

And I mean, just damn, because it was already iterating over the list of filenames using such a convoluted mechanism, what a great opportunity to put the filename into a local var without mutating the caller's list