YEEEP and you didnt say the name of the phenomenon. Prolly cause its still too new.
Its the hope and promise of Jackpotting or Slot Machine and getting that exact right prompt and getting the answer out. And of course, Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) has an article this exact name!
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2025-08-16-jackpot-salience-bias-2a696501bba7
Its similar to the Vegas eyes-glazed-over smoker/drinker pulling a 1 armed bandit. But it is paying for more tokens on the hope that the NEXT question is the right one. Or on local LLMs, its the waiting for the response to complete.
And that next tranche of tokens COULD BE IT!
Yet another Josh :donor:
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2026-07-09 14:13:55 UTC
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