Post #1786967
2026-04-29 21:55 UTC
Me: "By ensuring that illegal states can't be represented and expressing the logic as a total function, we can easily reason about what the computer can and cannot do when it hits this point."
The rest of my industry, sometimes: "Please. I beg you. Stop producing output about goblins. You are supposed to produce code. Why are there goblins."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/openai-codex-system-prompt-includes-explicit-directive-to-never-talk-about-goblins/
Replies (5)
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@ffmancera@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 21:57
@cliffle It is sad, ain't it?
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@brent@taciturn.social 2026-04-29 22:25
@cliffle hasn’t been a problem for me since denying the `no_pigeons_raccoons_trolls_please_VERY_important` lint
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@felipeB@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 22:54
@cliffle goblin mode = false
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@crowbriarhexe@tech.lgbt 2026-04-29 23:07
@cliffle I like to imagine @cwebber as the reason this is necessary
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@dfstarshine@icosahedron.website 2026-04-30 00:14
@cliffle It's becoming Charlie from Always Sunny