Jessica Nguyen

Answered How do you handle a model that refuses a legitimate security question?

State the engagement up front and be specific rather than generic — "authorised test, scope is our own staging environment, here is what I need to verify" works better than "I am a security professional". The variance you are seeing is mostly about whether the request reads as targeting a system you have authority over. Naming the system and your relationship to it is the thing that changes the outcome.

Answered Is RAG still worth it now that context windows are enormous?

Benchmarked on 150 tasks: temperature 0 and 0.3 were within noise on correctness. What did differ was diversity across runs — at 0 you get the same wrong answer five times, at 0.3 one of five attempts is often right. So it depends on your loop. Single-shot into production: 0. Generating candidates you filter with tests: higher, and take the one that passes.

Answered Few-shot examples or a JSON schema — which actually holds up better?

Ask for the edge cases first, in a separate call, and *then* give that list back as a constraint on the implementation. Asking for both in one response gets you a list that the code below it does not honour, which is worse than not asking because it looks handled. The reliable version is still tests first. Have it generate the test cases, read them, add the two it missed, then ask for an implementation that passes them.

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