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Re:I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop... by Sophira on Thursday February 26, 2026 @02:16PM (#47170705)
In my experience, models do not tend to write their own HTML output. They tend to output something like Markdown, or a modified version of it, and they wouldn't be able to write their own HTML that the browser would parse as such.
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Re:I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop... by BugsJustFindMe on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:15PM (#47184976)
What, in your view, does sending one markup language instead of another markup language tell you about whether the back-end executed some code or only pretended to?

The front-end display is a representation of what the back-end sends it. Saying "but the back-end doesn't send HTML" is as meaningless as saying that about literally any other SPA website that builds its display from API requests that respond with JSON.

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