Model Degeneration Loop | Generated by AI
There you go — 1000 new tokens. It just keeps getting worse:
- Lines 1-48: prompt replayed verbatim (good)
- Lines 49-65: garbled Java-looking code with random class/method names
- Lines 66+: collapses into repetitive
S.S.S.S.Spatterns, random punctuation,this.S.S.BufferType = array.S.S.S.S = null, etc.
By ~200 tokens in it’s essentially in a degeneration loop — the model has no idea what comes next so it just cycles through high-probability garbage tokens. The S.S.S.S.S repetition suggests the token distribution has collapsed into a narrow mode.
This is the classic failure mode of small language models — they memorize training examples but can’t compose novel sequences.