@davidgerard @katrinatransfem there is something fishy about the most recent influencer campaign. They even got Knuth to mention a specific product by name.

It's like they did psychological profiling on individuals, and then give them exactly what they need to praise them, and not their competitor (and of course push the concept as a whole bit only secondarily).

@loke @Mae @davidgerard @katrinatransfem My working hypothesis is that with the 4.6 model they made Claude better... at manipulating people

And we're seeing the results of that

@sitcom_nemesis @loke @Mae @katrinatransfem Writing a post/podcast on that is in my list for this week. Trouble is how to nail it down, rather than just my vibes on the topic.

given the tremendous number of social media posts from formerly competent developers and the paucity of non-shit results, i'm pretty sure this is the answer

but proving or even demonstrating it is rather more work and i need the material

@sitcom_nemesis @davidgerard @loke @Mae @katrinatransfem

every time you use an LLM for *anything*, it makes your brain a tiny bit smoother