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| | A few months back I started Persistence Labs with the goal of developing better tools for bug discovery, reverse engineering and exploit development. I've also moved my blog over to that domain and the new RSS feed is here. Anyway, that's about it really =) I'll be making any future blog posts over there, starting...
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| | I am pretty much a software development novice. I know just a little Java and a tiny bit of C++. Nothing basically. I am wanting to create my own photo editing software, somewhat similar to Photoshop, but with much less elements. I would like things like various brushes and similar though. So, perhaps similar to...
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| The tail wagging the dog refers to a situation where small or unimportant things are controlling the larger or more important things. A common reason this occurs in software engineering is when you get too absorbed in solving some low level problem that you forgot the whole reason you were writing the code in the first place. LLMs are particularly susceptible to this problem. The problem is that in the most common chat modality, everything LLM does is put into the context. While the LLM has some capability of understanding what is more or less important, if you put tons of irrelevant things in the context, it will become harder and harder for it to remember what it should be doing. Careful prompting at the beginning can help, as is good context hygiene. Clau...