And social media shouldn't rage bait, but it really drives engagement. Same negative incentive, yes?

But also, I agree, when I am using a coding agent and it says a task will take months or says it needs to pause for reflection or any other anthropomorphic behavior, it drives me crazy and it's a pain to constantly instruct it to get back work after it has broken a loop or goal directive specifically telling it to not stop until it hits the goal.

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AbsurdCensor 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Same thing you have to do with humans too often, so why would a 'AI' be any different?

	▲	LogicFailsMe 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Because if you start with a pre-trained model, it doesn't sound particularly anthropomorphic. That behavior is post-trained and fine-tuned right into it. We could do better.