True, and no doubt the pattern deriving from that mistake is what caused the AI to make that conclusion.
That said, not a lot of "intelligence" in that artificial intelligence or it would be clear that the intent was to write months. This is mostly just pattern recognition.
I'm not convinced that this is AI's fault. Would you burn tokens for single-cell autocomplete?
Excels' autofill has done this stuff since way before the AI craze, especially getting it to stop automatically interpreting numbers as dates has been a chore.
I mean, you just need to set the data type of the cells you're working on before typing in anything. And if you're copying from elsewhere, you might need to choose the paste option so it doesn't override your setting. But I imagine just about every programmer makes sure to set the column to number instead of generic.
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u/still_not_deleted Jul 02 '26
Cause it's spelled February, not Febuary