Joke Proposal: Ditch bcrypt, Store Passwords in LLM Context Windows

kylegawley · x · 2026-08-13

A developer shared a highly sarcastic engineering joke, declaring that traditional bcrypt password hashing is obsolete.

He suggested storing all user passwords directly within an LLM’s context window instead. The supposed advantage? Password resets become instantaneous, as the system can simply ask the language model what the user's password is.

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