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An LLM wrote his firewall config, and he built a checker to catch its letter swaps

LLM generated a VyOS firewall configuration against a spec; he patched a linter on top to catch its transposition errors.

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How it works

  1. The LLM generates the firewall configuration against a spec
  2. It makes transposition errors
  3. He patches a linter on top to catch them

Why it’s worth knowing

The fix for an agent that swaps letters is a machine that reads letters.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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