Working with LLMs feels like hunting for "wooden cores" in a thesis
PlisSergey · x · 2026-09-17
Borrowing an engineering folklore tale — a thesis claiming "the magnet's core will be made of wood, because nobody will ever read this far" — the author compares working with LLMs to spending most of one's time searching for these wooden cores: content that looks polished on the surface but cuts corners or is flat-out wrong deep inside. A relatable take on the hidden verification burden of LLM outputs.
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