LLMs and the Adversarial Loop
LLMs are confident. So much so that if you ask one to give you the recipe to immortality, it will probably take a stab at it, even though it knows as much ab...
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Stop Suggesting Git Aliases
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The Joel Test for 2017
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Easy Request Response Rules in Fiddler
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