I wrote a cycle detecting reference counting system and asked Sonnet 3.5 to fix it and it failed. I hand held it, gave it tests, called out flaws in reasoning.

I wrote a cycle detecting reference counting system and asked Sonnet 3.5 to fix it and it failed. I hand held it, gave it tests, called out flaws in reasoning.. etc., and it still didn't fix. The longer the chat the more likely it was Sonnet forgot a clarification I provided. Overall huge waste of time, lost my train of thought and I was helping an LLM rubber duck and fail repeatedly