And research articles indicate that when the model computes that it should employ sycophantism it becomes less useful in every other way, just like a real sycophant.
I find Gemini is also hilariously enthusiastic about telling you how amazingly insightful you are being, almost no matter what you say. Doesn't bother me much, I basically just ignore the first paragraph of any reply, but it's kind of funny.
I did as a test, Grok has "workspaces" and you can add a pre-prompt. So I made a Kamina (from Gurren Lagann) "worspace" so I could ask it silly questions and get back hyped up answers from "Kamina" it worked decently, my point is some tools out there let you "pre-prompt" based on your context. I believe Perplexity has this as well, they don't make it easy to find though.
I don't view it as a bug. It's a personality trait of the model that made "user steering" much easier, thus helping the model to handle a wider range of tasks.
I also think that there will be no "perfect" personality out there. There will always be folks who view some traits as annoying icks. So, some level of RL-based personality customization down the line will be a must.
Yeah because I am sure if they told you how stupid and wrong you’re, people will continue to use it.
It’s superficial but not sure why people get so annoyed about it. It’s an artifact.
If devs truly want a helpful coding AI based on real devs doing real work, you’d basically opt for telemetry and allow Anthropic/OpenAI to train on your work. That’s the only way. Otherwise we are at the mercy of “devs” these companies hire to do training.
it seems username "anthropic" on github is taken by a developer from australia more than a decade ago, so Anthropic went with "https://github.com/anthropics/" with an 's' at the end :)
I also get this too often, when I sometimes say something like "would it be maybe better to do it like this?" and then it replies that I'm absolutely right, and starts writing new code. While I was rather wondering what Claude may think and advice me whether that's the best way to go forward.
I agree this is a bug, but I also think it cannot be fully fixed because there is a cultural aspect to it: what a phrase means depends on the speaker.
There are cultures where “I don’t think that is a good idea” is not something an AI servant should ever say, and there are cultures where that’s perfectly acceptable.
Someone will make a fortune by doubling down on this a making a personal AI that just keeps telling people how right and awesome they are ad infinitum.
I've been using claude code for a while and it has changed my personality. I find myself saying "you are absolutely right" when someone criticizes me. i am more open to feedback.
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<insert ridiculous sequence of nonsense CoT>
You are absolutely right!…
I love the tool, but keeping on track is an art.
I also don't get wanting to talk to an AI. Unless you are alone, that's going to be irritating for everyone else around.
I also think that there will be no "perfect" personality out there. There will always be folks who view some traits as annoying icks. So, some level of RL-based personality customization down the line will be a must.
It’s superficial but not sure why people get so annoyed about it. It’s an artifact.
If devs truly want a helpful coding AI based on real devs doing real work, you’d basically opt for telemetry and allow Anthropic/OpenAI to train on your work. That’s the only way. Otherwise we are at the mercy of “devs” these companies hire to do training.
it seems username "anthropic" on github is taken by a developer from australia more than a decade ago, so Anthropic went with "https://github.com/anthropics/" with an 's' at the end :)
Free tip for bug reports:
The "expected" should not suggest solutions. Just say what was the expected behavior. Don't go beyond that.
I also get this too often, when I sometimes say something like "would it be maybe better to do it like this?" and then it replies that I'm absolutely right, and starts writing new code. While I was rather wondering what Claude may think and advice me whether that's the best way to go forward.
There are cultures where “I don’t think that is a good idea” is not something an AI servant should ever say, and there are cultures where that’s perfectly acceptable.
not a joke.