i've had great success with both chatGPT and claude with the prompt "tell me how this sucks" or "why is this shit". being a bit more crass seems to bump it out

i've had great success with both chatGPT and claude with the prompt "tell me how this sucks" or "why is this shit". being a bit more crass seems to bump it out of the sycophantic mode, and being more open-ended in the type of problems you want it to find seems to yield better results. but i've been limiting it to a lot less than 20k LoC, i'm sticking with stuff i can just paste into the chat window.