3 weeks ago
Sun Jan 18, 2026 3:42am PST
Ask HN: What are some LLM shibboleths?
The most reliable one I see and hear all the time, is:

"It's not X. It's Y."

or

"This is not X. It's Y."

Also when something is misspelled by a human such as "IOUS" and "read" incorrectly by a synthetic digital twin as "I O U S" instead of "IOUs." And sometimes a word is accented incorrectly.

I hope these shibboleths stay, because they at least alert me to sloppily edited AI.

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