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Large Language Models don't understand. They predict the next word with great confidence. Here's how they really work, why they hallucinate, and how not to get fooled by the parrot.

An empty config file, 8.5 million Windows machines in boot loops, $10 billion in damages. An autopsy of the worst software update in modern history.

CVE-2014-0160. A 64KB buffer overflow in OpenSSL that exposed private keys, passwords and sessions from half the internet for over two years. Nobody noticed.