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Re:Ask HN: How are you finding the job market in 2026? on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:31PM (#49281479)
Jobs are dead, start a business.

Even if it's the same thing you'd do as an employee.

Trying to be a "software engineer looking for work" in 2026 is depressing - everyone hates that idea now

Re:Grok 4.6 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:18PM (#49281414)
Does Grok not have native models? What are you saying precisely
Re:Grok 4.6 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @11:13PM (#49281384)
In your mind do you think the user request goes straight to the LLM???

I hope that's not what people are doing

I only figure [older pulls of Mistral 7b] were doing it, since it was so easy to exfiltrate false names, so I don't mean it's totally unheard of, but in 2026 I hope people are treating the LLM as untrustworthy - like the client in client/server setups.

Re:Grok 4.6 on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @10:11PM (#49281073)
Source for this?

This seems like a crazy leak if it's their real system prompt.

I find it hard to believe since I have tried system prompts like this and it doesn't work that well, just pollutes the user's context.

A great test for any LLM is to ask its name - Mistral will respond with all kinds of stuff, sometimes other models' names, revealing that it has trained on other models.

Grok doesn't though. It is "witty and irreverent" at times, but that can't be only from this prompt, is it?