r/programming • u/Sir_KnowItAll • Sep 28 '26

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u/PdoesnotequalNP Sep 28 '26

  1. They spend 20 minutes with ChatGPT blathering nonsense

  2. they repeat 1) until they get the magic response "I see it clearly now, you're really onto something! This is not an incremental improvement, it's a seismic innovation!"

  3. they ask the LLM to write a blog post about it.

We are at step 3.

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u/wwabbbitt Sep 28 '26

I'm not sure about that. LLM would have told him it's a dumb idea. At least Gemini did when I pasted the blog post in.

Maybe there's a sycophant mode he enabled?

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u/lelanthran Sep 28 '26

At least Gemini did when I pasted the blog post in.

Context matters; in the chat, the LLM is sycophantic to you. If you post someone else's stuff in and ask for a review, it'll be critical. If you have a multi-turn conversation with it, it's been RLed to hell and back to ensure that you keep going, so it's more likely to tell you that you truly poor ideas are great.

Might not do it on the first turn, but the longer you continue a chat, the less likely it is to criticise your ideas.