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Today, in one of the Telegram chats somebody asked if anybody remembered what the limit of the filename length in MS-DOS was. That someone could not remember the 8.3 rule seems counterintuitive to me, but I can rationally persuade myself that there are people who never worked with DOS or that someone could forget. That’s not what triggered this post.

It was the answer. Someone just forwarded an reply to the question from one of the GPT assistant chats.

That someone looking for the answer to this question would ask an LLM seems absolutely absurd to me. It’s a three-word search request, why make it a sentence and risk getting a hallucination for an answer?

Maybe I’m just old…