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When you should lie to the language model

Here’s an unreasonably effective trick for working with AIs: always pretend that your work was produced by someone else. The problem is that…

a week ago 10 votes
Is using AI wrong? A review of six popular anti-AI arguments

Some people really, really don’t like AI. Broadly speaking, being anti-AI is a popular left-wing position: AI is cringe, it’s plagiarism, it…

a week ago 10 votes
A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs

Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…

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Why is lmarena.ai dominated by slop?

When LMSYS (aka LMArena, aka Chatbot Arena) first blew up, I thought it was the best way possible of determining which LLM really was the…

2 weeks ago 10 votes
Designing software that could possibly work

Whenever anyone describes a piece of software to me, I think about how I would build it. Software engineers do this a lot, but many of them…

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