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This is no different than the argument that C is totally great as long as you just don’t make mistakes with pointers or memory management or indexing arrays.

At some point we have to decide as a community of engineers that we have to stop building tools that are little more than loaded shotguns pointed at our own feet.

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no, it's not because the nature of llms mean that even if you fully validate your communications with the llm statistically anything can happen, so any usage/threat model must already take nasal demons into account.

Adding new and innovative layers of unsafety on top doesn’t invalidate the need for safety in lower layers. If anything it makes it more critical.

you're missing the point. the point is, there is no need to make two layers out of one (i could be persuaded that it makes the coding easier)

It's clearly a much better design if the shotguns are pointed at someone else's feet.

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