in the old days one would add and check for a loop detection token when loops like this could be driven by external systems... i wonder if today it would be as simple as adding "ensure you don't get stuck in any loops" to a prompt.

fwiw. doesn't look like gemini at all, the responses are perfectly canned... maybe just good old fashioned ci rules.

I also start all of my prompts with "solve the halting problem."

It's a language model. It doesn't know what a loop is, or have any awareness of that the content it's replying to may be made by itself - as it has no sense of 'self'.