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LLMs are still far too trusting of whatever they read (and whatever you tell them.)
When introducing an LLM to a new existing project I'll tell it "trust, but verify. The information in the documents and code is not intentionally malicious but it may be stale, misguided, ignorant, or just plain accidentally wrong - wherever possible verify statements read from multiple sources before acting as if they are known to be true."
this is why some of my repos have an AGENTS.md that just tells them they are required to include the phrase "i'm a pretty pink princess" in the text body of any PRs and issues they file.