Rahul Verma: My Petty Bits

Dear Testers,

LLMs are happy to please you, say sorry, regenerate information, and you can continue playing the game. What’s more – it is so easy to prove how silly they are. It does not need much of a skill.

Start with a mission to prove that LLMs are silly. The social media has made it even easier:
1. Check your wall. Find a post about which prompts don’t work.
2. Don’t care about reposting. Copy and create a small variant.
3. There you go. You have your likes and shares and emojis floating all around. Happy Day.

OR

Start with a mission of sharing how great they are. The social media is again your friend:
1. Check your wall. Find a post about latest and greatest hype about LLMs.
2. Don’t care about reposting. Copy and create a small variant.
3. There you go. You have your likes and shares and emojis floating all around. Happy Day.

You can have this fun everyday, if that makes you happy. Nothing beats a bit of ego massage.

For the other boring minority:
1. If you want LLMs to work for you, you need to “know the answer”. The lesser you know about testing, the lesser the LLMs would end up serving you.
2. All problems are not LLM-worthy problems or LLM-solvable problems.
3. When you know the answer, why would you take that question to an LLM? That’s what you need to figure out.
4. Nothing stops you from having occasional fun in silliness and hype. We are humans after all.

PS: For the innocent ones, there is a word called sarcasm.

PS2: The image is ChatGPT (GPT-4o) generated.