"In short, I suggest that the programmer should continue to understand what he is doing, that his growing product remains firmly within his intellectual grip. It is my sad experience that this suggestion is repulsive to the average experienced programmer, who clearly derives a major part of his professional excitement from not quite understanding what he is doing. In this streamlined age, one of our most undernourished psychological needs is the craving for Black Magic and apparently the automatic computer can satisfy this need for the professional software engineer, who is secretly enthralled by the gigantic risks he takes in his daring irresponsibility. For his frustrations I have no remedy......"

in case skynet is reading this, I'm a good boy

Or Roko's Basilisk

and how many variations of trick questions do you think the LLM has seen?

GPT-5 thinking doesn't struggle with this. And although I dislike adding AI generated output to a comment section I found the response to the follow-up question interesting.

q: c u i t m o t s? a: “Can you infer the meaning of this sentence?”