{"id":317,"date":"2025-04-23T06:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/a-trick-to-feel-less-like-cheating-when-you-use-llms\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T06:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:11:43","slug":"a-trick-to-feel-less-like-cheating-when-you-use-llms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/23\/a-trick-to-feel-less-like-cheating-when-you-use-llms\/","title":{"rendered":"A trick to feel less like cheating when you use LLMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: \"Helvetica Neue\", helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(253, 253, 253); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Is what you&#8217;re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it&#8217;s probably going to be great at it. If you&#8217;re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you&#8217;re asking it to create more text than you gave it, forget about it.<\/span><br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Apr\/23\/cheating\/\">simonwillison.net\/2025\/Apr\/23\/cheating\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is what you&#8217;re doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it&#8217;s probably going to be great at it. If you&#8217;re asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you&#8217;re asking it to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}