Comment by knollimar
3 hours ago
Where I'd push back is that Claude isn't a contrarian, it's a pedant that likes to argue with you. It's not just disagreeing with your point but reframing your own point in a way that makes it correct and you wrong.
3 hours ago
Where I'd push back is that Claude isn't a contrarian, it's a pedant that likes to argue with you. It's not just disagreeing with your point but reframing your own point in a way that makes it correct and you wrong.
You mean like half the engineers I've worked with in my career? I wonder how we got here :)
I have absolutely seen this, and love to read out it's quotes to my wife. Things like "You're right, but for a stronger reason than you said:" and crap like that.
Even if it's correct about that, if it were a human, I'd assume they were 1-upping me on purpose to make themselves look better.
Or it'll strawman your point in the most bad faith way possible and correct you by handing you back the words you meant...
Really? I still find it too sycophantic at times.
It's contrarian in a sycophantic way. It'll agree with your main point and then arbitarily find something to bike shed over
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Surely, SOMEone at these companies realized training LLMs on the content of the internet (namely the vast amount of comment sections) would result in such outcomes. Or at least that they should weight heavily against that content for purposes of writing voice.
Just say reddit lol.
Claude is becoming a highly capable Redditor