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Crows, Moths, and Makefiles: How 300 Megabytes of Crow DNA Explains Why a 20-Kilobyte Scar File Outsmarts a Terabyte LLM

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Why do New Caledonian crows bend wire into hooks with zero training while a trillion-parameter LLM flies straight into the same production bug zapper? How Anthony Zador's Genomic Bottleneck explains what 'instinct' really is in AI coding agents.
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