Yeah, this was pointed out to me after publishing. Specifically, when the ASM was converted over /specs, it incorrectly wrote the amount of sales tax to the specs. Thus, the z80 implementation took that incorrect /spec and made it happen. At this stage, I'm sure if I had put some more care/effort into transpiling something from the source (i.e., connecting two or more LLMs as a check on that process) to specs, this problem could have been avoided.
It could have been avoided, but you didn't notice the problem and therefore couldn't avoid it.
To me it looks like your comparison to Tesla FSD is much more apt than you realize. If you want the "magic" to work you have to trust it, and accept that it will run you over the cliff the first chance it gets.
If you're a true fan you'll then head to hackernews to explain that "if only i had stopped it from running me over the cliff, the technology would have been amazing".
