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| ▲ | lunchbucket 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| That's interesting but raised the same question, why berate a machine? Either the agent is not a person, in which case, anything it does wrong is your fault. Or it is a person, it can be blamed for mistakes, but then we can't in good conscious use it as a tool. |
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| ▲ | inkcapmushroom 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Berating an LLM's response as a way to improve output has worked for at least some subset of LLMs and outputs. I have a coworker who told me that "hack" anyways. | |
| ▲ | tdeck 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Berating a real person is often unproductive too, but people do it to make themselves feel better. | |
| ▲ | sweetjuly 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | One must imagine punching the wall feels good (in the moment) |
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| ▲ | Sanzig 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why berate an LLM? That doesn't sound healthy. Sure, it's a machine, but it's simulating a social interaction - being a jerk to it could bleed over into interactions with real people. Also, Westworld? These violent delights have violent ends? Perhaps there's a tinge of Pascal's wager to it, but I prefer to be courteous to the rapidly improving synthetic intelligences. |
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| ▲ | matheusmoreira 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I didn't mean to imply I berate the LLMs. I don't do that. I talk to them as though they were intelligent and potentially sentient beings. When I see problems, I just correct them, take steps to prevent them in the future then move on. I was just informing people that Anthropic gave Claude a tool that ends conversations and instructed it to use it via the system prompt if it's threatened or insulted. | |
| ▲ | poszlem 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | For the same reason you berate a person or hit a wall. And yes, it's a machine, even more reasons why it should just take the berating and not throw a hissy fit. |
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| ▲ | Razengan 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| wow I've been saying this since probably a year, that the entire Claude product: from the sign-up, the payment, the UX, the UI, the harness, the intelligence itself, the output, the "flavor" ..is just so mid that all the hype posted on HN about Claude must have been paid PR or a case of the emperor with no clothes. |
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| ▲ | datadrivenangel 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Back at the end of 2025 Claude Code was truly the best. They've watered it down and the competition has caught up. |
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