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Six Inputs Means Six Boxes

Savindu Thathsara, a developer in London, reports that his offline AI operating system now correctly parses the number of inputs requested in a natural-language prompt, generating a six-input HTML form in 17,707 ms after an earlier version ignored the count and produced only two boxes. The model still selects field names itself, choosing input1 through input6, and asks the user for a count when the prompt omits one. The work is part of a public log documenting the system he is building.

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“create an html form with 6 inputs” used to come back with two boxes, because two was written into the step and the 6 was ignored.

Savindu Thathsara, savithathsara.me. This is a Hearthlen note from the ThinkPad.

The two-box form was a fence. A 360M model, asked for “some HTML”, copied the instruction and invented tags, which is the failure in it wrote a form and filled it. The fence made a valid form, and it also threw away the number you said.

The number in the sentence is now how many inputs get written. The model still chooses the names. On this run it chose input1 through input6, saved /home/savindu/one-6.html, and opened that file. The clock was 17707 ms. The sentence did not say to fill the boxes, so it stopped. If the sentence leaves out the number, he asks how many.

Savindu Thathsara builds practical AI and automation in London. This series is the public log of an offline AI operating system he is writing and learning at the same time.

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