[themafia]

> it stuck to its guns

It gave you a probabilistic output. There were no guns and nothing to stick to. If you had disrupted the context with enough countervailing opinion it would have "relented" simply because the conversational probabilities changed.

[tstrimple]

I was amused but not impressed when I was able to convince Claude Code that it was useless and absolutely not a service worth paying for. It literally apologized and recommended I ask for a refund. I mean, I still get lots of value from CC. Just that it's easy to push them into whatever corner you want.

[nprateem]

It's amazing this still needs to be said, especially here

[coffeefirst]

Here, sure.

For the general public, these tools have been advertised this way.

So if a good subset of HN still gets fooled, the layperson is screwed.

[gizajob]

Hmm or the layperson wouldn’t be “smart” enough to think that ChatGPT could give useful answers to complex health questions.