Would you be willing to provide an example (even a contrived one) of how this "four at a time" prompt changes the LLM's behavior?
replyI just want to understand more.
Also, would you be willing to share the actual text of it that you put in AGENTS.md?
I’m curious where you get the estimate that humans hold “like four” parameters in their mind at once?
replyCowan (2001) is an oft-cited paper proposing three to five "chunks" of capacity in human attention: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...
replyThe full PDF is worth a read (Figure 1 may be of interest to many here): https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
If "attention is all you need" then it's something we do indeed lack, in comparison to LLMs! But it's an interesting question: might machine cognition benefit from similar bottlenecks in an attention algorithm? Advancements like Kimi Linear seem to indicate that we're far from the finish line: https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26692
updated the comment. i meant four "concepts". i dont reason about my own thinking in terms of parameters.
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