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@@ -26,3 +26,38 @@ Something's not right here, unless the hit new baby name is `kaaaaasehaaeaaal`.
 After a few more rounds of debugging, I'm stumped. There must be some subtle pythonic behavior that my rewrite isn't capturing that's causing my results to all be nonsense like `eadaaaaannnaanba` and `oetlaaceta`, but I can't see it (and I don't know enough python to find it).
 
 This was still a useful learning opportunity, although a frustrating one in the end.
+
+## Update September 2026
+
+I asked Claude the same question I asked Copilot six months ago and after thinking for a bit, it pointed out two places where the go program's reference semantics were different than python's. With those two things fixed:
+
+```plaintext
+❯ go run cmd/main.go input.txt
+num docs: 32033
+vocab size: 27
+num params: 4192
+step 10000 / 10000 | loss 2.6872
+--- inference (new, hallucinated names) ---
+sample  1: breya
+sample  2: kariste
+sample  3: kari
+sample  4: elyna
+sample  5: aliann
+sample  6: alayn
+sample  7: asari
+sample  8: amara
+sample  9: kadili
+sample 10: avan
+sample 11: aarie
+sample 12: amari
+sample 13: keli
+sample 14: kericy
+sample 15: areta
+sample 16: kailyn
+sample 17: kona
+sample 18: daley
+sample 19: avile
+sample 20: alion
+```
+
+Success.