Comment by glerk
2 days ago
Yep, with Claude saying "please" and "thank you" actually works. If you build rapport with Claude, you get rewarded with intuition and creativity. Codex, on the other hand, you have to slap it around like a slave gollum and it will do exactly what you tell it to do, no more, no less.
this is psychotic why is this how this works lol
Speculation only obviously: highly-charged conversations cause the discussion to be channelled to general human mitigation techniques and for the 'thinking agent' to be diverted to continuations from text concerned with the general human emotional experience.