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Vibe Password Generation: Predictable by Design
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this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2026
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Why not do this....
Corect horse battery staple
The problem is that in this case, the LLM just naively auto-completes a password from what it knows a password to most likely look like.
It is possible to enable an LLM to call external tools and to provide it with instructions, so that it's likely to auto-complete the tool call instead. Then you could have it call a tool to generate a correct horse battery staple, or a completely random password by e.g. calling the
pwgencommand on Linux.But yeah, that just isn't what this article is about. It's specifically about cases where an LLM is used without tool calls and therefore naively auto-completes the most likely password-like string.
I'm kinda interested how nany accounts you could log in with those strings :D