[mrefish]

> Let me know what you think by complaining that AI sucks on HN!

At least you complied with the next sentence :)

EDIT: Whoa, I didn't check your link before I posted. That's terribly sad. While I agree that LLMs can be sycophantic, I don't think Yegge was debating with Claude about drug use in this situation. Other references might have worked better to support you claim like this first page result when I search for "papers on llm sycophancy": https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12592531/

[xyzsparetimexyz]

I don't think that AI sucks. I just think that it is something that is too maleable to debate with

[doug_durham]

You need to explicitly tell it to debate you. Also you cite and example of someone using ChatGPT to discuss personal issues. We are talking about technical discussions here.