How do you stop an LLM from leaking API keys in the code it writes? Default to secret
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On July 22 I typed a one-line prompt on a test app: a widget built on a well-known REST API, the kind that authenticates with an X-Api-Key header. The model wrote a clean widget. It also wrote my key into a request header, in the page's JavaScript. In the declaration that comes with the code, it ha…
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How do you stop an LLM from leaking API keys in the code it writes? Default to secret