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FooBarWidget • today at 9:10 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

? Footguns as a synonym for "caveat" or "gotcha" were in use long before LLMs. I hate Claude speak too but there's no need to knee-jerk blame everything on LLMs.


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walrus01 • today at 9:14 AM

While that is true (the LLMs surely had to learn it from pre-existing content), I think it's been so thoroughly overused and turned into a cliche that the term has been ruined for the foreseeable future.

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