[TeMPOraL]

> Maybe it's just me, but talking to toddlers often reminds me of interacting with LLMs

It's not just you. It hit me almost a year ago, when I realized my then 3.5yo daughter has a noticeable context window of about 30 seconds - whenever she went on her random rant/story, anything she didn't repeat within 30 seconds would permanently fall out of the story and never be mentioned again.

It also made me realize why small kids talk so repetitively - what they don't repeat they soon forget, and what they feel like repeating remains, so over the course of couple minutes, their story kind of knots itself in a loop, being mostly made of the thoughts they feel compelled to carry forward.

[Terretta]

And, if you change their context, the story unspooling will change.

[TeMPOraL]

Yes. And if they're looped enough in their original story, this feels like the spring from a mechanical watch rapidly unwinding.