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Ask the Raw LLM API From Your Terminal. What Comes Back Is Junk, and That's the Point
Community description: Martin McGarry's top tip: query the bare OpenAI or Gemini API, diff it against the chat product, and the delta shows you where retrieval fetches from. Plus RSS as the next llms.txt and the grace period spam drives through.
Dev.to | Sep 13, 2026 | Jeremy Rivera
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"Anyone learning SEO right now, I've got a top tip, is to try the API. So when you use ChatGPT or Gemini, there's something else working in the background. " Everything the chat product knew that the bare model didn't came from a fetch. And there's definitely some, we know there's RAG in the background.
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