What an LLM Taught Me About Translating the Jingde Chuandeng Lu
I spent the last ten days asking a reasoning model to translate 30 volumes of classical Chinese Zen records into literary Thai. The work surfaced a dozen useful ideas, and exactly one bad one. The bad one is the reason I’m writing this. The good one is that translation quality, like security, is a property of a system, not a property of a prompt. ...