> Users of sites like Stack Overflow have reported really disliking answers like "You are solving the wrong problem" or "This is a bad approach".

https://nt4tn.net/articles/aixy.html

> Humans really like emotional validation.

Personally, I find the sycophantic responses extremely ick and now generally won't use commercial LLMs at all due to it. Of course, I realize it's irrational to have any kind of emotional response to the completion bot's tone, but I just find it completely repulsive.

In my case I already have a innate distaste for GPT 'house style' due to a abusive person who has harassed me for years adopting ChatGPT for all his communication, so any obviously 'chatgpt tone' comes across to me as that guy.

But I think the revulsion at the sycophancy is unrelated.