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⟩ Write me a Markdown file viewer for ${OS} that shows Markdown files as formatted documents by default. A button should toggle between the formatted view and the raw Markdown file as plain text. Work the task to completion and make no mistakes.

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Wait, do people actually tell LLMs to not make mistakes? Does it actually help or is it just one of those things like using Please etc?

It was a thing in the early days of LLM coding that actually got better (not great) results. It's far less necessary today but you still see it used as a joke much like the canonical AI response, "You're absolutely right!" (which I also haven't seen in yonks)

Off topic, but Sol and Astra are now constantly starting their answers with “Yes”.

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