Reading the Swamp (opens in new tab)

Two days ago I put my hands in the Swamp and they got, predictably, very dirty. Then I did something radical, revolutionary, somehow epic. I read the ***ing manual. No. It’s a lie, I didn’t. I forced an innocent AI to read it and summarize and explain the whole thing with the patience only AIs can have nowadays. This post, written in 4 hands, well, two hands and a bunch of tokens, (you will never know, nor care, who wrote what), is the final public summary of such a journey into the swamp. Th...