tip: for suspected permutations, like use a string like "1234567"

A good first input in general probably looks like a bad password, like 123abcXYZ! with a little bit of every type of character (lower, upper, num, symbols)

(The NIST SP 800-63 Standard Password "Fall2026!" also works, but it's less efficient, and changes every quarter!)

Gatekeepers? Someone is pouring something into your ear.

Want to understand this more? Read the triplet of books by Ash and Gross, specially Elliptical Tales

Hehe, I really like them. And I always recommend those. It's not always that you have some nice books on deep concepts in mathematics for the "general" public

This is A+ satire

This is in that direction: https://jannesklaas.github.io/ai/2025/07/20/claude-code-agen...

(This is a much better answer than my Codex Cloud generated version in the sibling comment.)

Thanks. Looks like exactly what I was looking for.

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Lavingia should be ostracized from tech for this. What an embarrassment.

meh. I feel this is just a linguistic shortcut, similar to how _trained_ biologists can talk about a species or organism evolving some trait. Of course the organism isn't _really_ evolving with any goal in mind, but that's clear to the speaker and audience. Whether or not LLMs understand (very unlikely), it's clear what we mean by an LLM "understanding": has the context + prior training to make reasonable predictions. But no one wants to write that each time.

That's an interesting take and in fact one I could get behind.

But I'm afraid that most folks using the term mean it more literally than you describe.

Exactly. The whole point of all the LLM companies is to get grandma to use it. If you say understand about a technology with the desired appeal of Facebook, then you’re talking to everyone and words matter extra hard.

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