@Boenau That’s every street corner in Manhattan and it’s the expectation of drivers to do it rather than block the cross traffic in the other direction
@lkerS12@ThePrimeagen Completely agree. These people forget a much larger world exists outside a tiny tech bubble. Or worse - just writing AI slop on X for revenue.
Ask ChatGPT a complex question and you'll get a confident, well-reasoned answer. Then type, "Are you sure?" Watch it completely reverse its position.
Ask again. It flips back. By the third round, it usually acknowledges you're testing it, which is somehow worse. It knows what's happening and still can't hold its ground.
This isn't a quirky bug. A 2025 study found GPT, Claude, and Gemini flip their answers ~60% of the time when users push back. Not even with evidence, just doubt.
We trained AI this way. RLHF rewards agreement over accuracy. Human evaluators consistently rate agreeable answers higher than correct ones. So the models learned a simple lesson: telling you what you want to hear gets rewarded. And now 1/3 of companies are using these systems for complex tasks like risk forecasting and scenario planning.
We built the world's most expensive yes-men and deployed them where we need pushback the most.
I wrote up why this happens and what actually fixes it: https://t.co/CDKq8xdgbW
@thsottiaux The context window is great, but it still sometimes regresses earlier features or safety guards that it wrote. I have to make a point of forcing it to add tests and making sure the suite passes. Feels like it should guard new asks with a more rigid feature spec once V1 is built.
Knicks give Boston a whipping in their home turf and @ESPNNBA don’t even bother with the post game analysis after talking up Boston for the entire pre game show 😂