Sounding Smart Doesn't Make It True
October 02, 2026
Another really good article in the ByteByteGo Newsletter. This time about the conditions which lead LLMs to "lie".
My takeaways:
More reasoning isn't a silver bullet. Techniques like chain-of-though prompting (asking the AI to show its work step-by-step) make answers easier to follow, but an AI can still . . .