Post #3364954

2026-06-21 08:11 UTC

It depends on training, promoting and reasoning capabilities. Sometimes they’re prompted to not be assertive. You can often tell them though to e.g. “behave like an XYZ expert in a bad mood who doesn’t accept nonsense”. I’ve had e.g. ChatGPT contest me a lot even though I was right. It was about a bicycle brake design I had never seen before. It gave me some options of what it could be and helped me to actually find out what it was. However after I did some research and found out what the actual type was it kept doubting my result and insisted it was a different kind of brake.

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@gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-21 10:09

The best sort of methodology I’ve found to coerce Claude or whatever (we are strongly encouraged to use it, because you know, tech these days) is (for a single agent) to define a process that includes proving its work and citing sources. For agentic flow, you basically just assign a contrarian role in particular domains to some of the agents - ideally all of this is also hooked into an MCP server that includes deterministic utilities to improve accuracy and solution arrival speed. It’s basically just a shitty, brute-forced, massively over complicated Monte Carlo algorithm that’s wildly inefficient in terms of energy usage and infrastructural cost, that also happens to be turning our economy into a highly flammable house of cards. Can you tell what my opinion of all this bullshit is, despite knowing how to do all of this crap reasonably well? 😛

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@yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-21 15:04

I’m trying not to judge and to just remain curious here. Why would you keep using AI like that?

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