How about other frontier models, and smaller models?

I think the main advantage of the XML here is that the model is expected to have a matching end tag that is balanced, which reduces the likelihood of malformed outputs.

This has been the way for a long time, exploiting XML tags was a means of exfiltrating data or reversing a model for a while as well. Some platforms are still vulnerable to this.

This sounds like something for harnesses, not end users. Are they really expecting us to format prompts as XML??

bemused by how competently designed this is, compared to enshittified blogs and whatnot

To be realistic, this design needs more weirdly sexual etsy garbage, “one weird tip,” and “punch the monkey”

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Amazing how an entire profession that until yesterday would pride itself on precision, clarity (in thought and in writing), efficiency, and formality, has now descended into complete quackery.