2026-04-17 05:21 UTC
@swelljoe @yaelwrites Tech sounds pretty horrific at the moment. The way it's being forced on people and into coding processes is downright weird. Using it to code seems kind of different to what's being described in the study, though — or is it sycophantic when you're coding, too?
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@swelljoe@mas.to 2026-04-17 05:42
@tokyo_0 @yaelwrites it is sycophantic always, though you can configure it to be less so. I choose configuration options that minimize it (stuff like "professional tone" settings), and I explicitly disallow it in my CLAUDE.md and demand very concise/precise prose. But, it still defers to the human's greater wisdom and dives right in with gusto, no matter how dumb the idea is. They don't know how to say no. They'll change the definition of the problem in order to deliver something that works.