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I’m Brian P. Hogan, a technical content expert, software developer, teacher, and musician. I am the author of several books including Build Websites with Hugo, Small, Sharp Software Tools, and Exercises For Programmers.

When I’m not writing or teaching, I’m making music.


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You Own It Published December 9, 2024

I keep seeing how “LLMs are great teaching tools! I asked it to explain X to me and it did!” Don’t be fooled! Ask it to explain a technical topic you deeply understand and you’ll start to see where it makes things up. It is a predictive text engine. Sure, you can do all sorts of prompt hacking to get better results. But at the end of the day, if you don’t know the topic really well you will never know if it made up the facts it gave you.


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