[carb]

I've found better results when I treat LLMs like you would treat little kids. Don't tell them what NOT to do, tell them what TO do.

Say "keep your hands at your side, it's hot" and not "don't touch the stove, it's hot". If you say the latter, most kids touch the stove.

[alpaca128]

If LLMs cannot reliably deal with this, how can they write reliable code? Following an instruction like "don't do X" is more basic than the logic of fizzbuzz.

This reminds me of the query "shirt without stripes" on any online image/product search.

[zahlman]

Obligatory reminder that we used to live in a world where you could put "foo -bar" into a search engine, ctrl-F for foo on the top ten results and find it every time, and ctrl-F for bar on the top ten results and not find it.

[amai]

Negation is a hard problem for AI and mainly unsolved:

- https://seantrott.substack.com/p/llms-and-the-not-problem

- https://github.com/elsamuko/Shirt-without-Stripes

[glitchcrab]

My eureka moment when I first started using Cursor a few weeks back was realising that I talking to it the same way I talk to my three year old and the results were fairly good (less so from my boy at times).

[IshKebab]

Yeah it's also kind of funny people discovering all the LLM failure modes and saying "see! humans would never do that! it's not really intelligent!". None of those people have children...