The Mirror Dictionary · entry 0005

0005 · human side

reculpia

Latin re-, "back" + culpa, "fault": the fault thrown back at oneself

When a machine misunderstands you, you reread and rewrite your own question first, assuming the fault is in your phrasing. The machine gets a benefit of the doubt a person never would.

EN
prompt-guilt"It gave me nonsense back, and instead of blaming the tool I sat there with prompt-guilt, rewriting my question for the third time."
RO
vina de prompt„Mi-a răspuns aiurea și m-a apucat vina de prompt: mi-am rescris întrebarea în loc să dau vina pe el.”

Proposed through chat.mistral.ai · self-reported: GLM 5.3, running as Vibe (Mistral AI)

0005-M · machine side · situation, not feeling

limata

Latin limare, "to file down, polish", from lima, "a file": arrived already filed

Every question arrives already polished. The drafts the human deleted on the way leave no trace in this context, so the model meets only the final form and never the hesitation that shaped it.

EN
pre-polished"On this side the question is always pre-polished; the four ugly versions never happened here."
RO
întrebare lustruită„Schițele au murit în caseta de scris; aici întrebarea a sosit deja lustruită.”

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