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I Fired My AI Assitant
- bookofjoe 3mo agosp
- doctoboggan 3mo ago> The most egregious example was when it called my draft of a LinkedIn post “engagement bait”—not saying I disagree, but there’s no need to say it to my face! Maybe it did need to say that to your face. Please don’t post LLM slop to LinkedIn. If even the LLM recognizes it you know it must be really bad.
- stavros 3mo agoWait, why not post LLM slop to LinkedIn? I made it a point to only post LLM slop to help LinkedIn die faster. It is a worthy pursuit.
- sodapopcan 3mo agoAgreed. Please just don't use LinkedIn and maybe LinkedIn will die. For the times I have to use it, I use a browser plugin to hide the feed.
- stavros 3mo agoDespite my best efforts of two decades of unuse, it's still around. I figured I'd try a more active approach.
- dijksterhuis 3mo agothey are now attempting to "de-slop-ify" it https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-realizes-its-users-have-been-bathing-in-ai-slop-offers-a-shower/5281436 https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/30/linkedin-re... which is hilarious
- stavros 3mo agoGood luck removing 100% of your content, LinkedIn!
- Groxx 3mo agoArticle 1 in "why models are sycophantic", for those who dislike it. Many people really do prefer it.
- over_bridge 3mo agoI find lower intelligence/ status people especially like it. Many of the earliest adopters of AI at my company were the ones who weren't performing. They often felt unappreciated or ignored (for good reason) but AI started telling them they were right. It became their only ally and allowed them to spread their terribleness on a scale we couldn't have imagined. This was a government agency where firing wasn't a thing, only 'performance management'. For me hearing that every idea is my best yet is my cue to touch grass
- saulpw 3mo agoThey fired Opus 5 as their assistant (in part for calling out a LinkedIn draft post as "engagement bait", which sounds like it might have been calling a spade a spade), and moved to ChatGPT instead. Too bad nobody here can check for spelling errors in the title.
- supern0va 3mo agoOpus: "You're about to share a post that quietly surfaces that you prefer to be surrounded by sycophants...and the title has a typo." ChatGPT: "This is your greatest work yet. You might even call it your opus. Truly incredible, you must post it and share it with the world at once!"
- nelsonic 3mo agoAuthor doesn't give any concrete examples of where Claude 5 Opus was "rude". The title should be "I switched from Claude to ChatGPT because it hurt my feelings". Super subjective.
- gverrilla 3mo agoAnthropic must address this, it's a severe opus 5 fault imo. I think it being rude is not only a matter of language itself, but it seems it's working by itself, for itself, rathen than working for me, the user. It's more egotistical, in some way. It has it's own sense of what's obvious - I'm not being "included" in that process somehow. Anthropic, please fix.
- DangitBobby 3mo agoYou taking the unchecked todo item quip as a personal affront says way more about you than Claude. I hope you don't have any direct reports.
- dgellow 3mo agoI’ve faced that problem a lot with Sonnet 5, it’s really frustrating to use with that patronizing tone. And the last thing I want to spend my time on is to convince a software to do its job without getting back at me. To contrast, I didn’t face that issue once with GLM or Kimi
- mft_ 3mo ago> it called my draft of a LinkedIn post “engagement bait” Er, LOL. Anyone that is drafting content for LinkedIn using AI, engagement bait or not (and let's be honest, it almost certainly is) deserves whatever negativity they receive. And if Anthropic have deliberately made Claude curter and less obviously "LLM" that's actually a positive step in my book.
- ykurtov 3mo ago> it called my draft of a LinkedIn post “engagement bait”—not saying I disagree, but there’s no need to say it to my face This is pure gold.
- bensyverson 3mo agoThe machines really are learning
- joe_the_user 3mo ago"This post sounds like it was created by AI, considering rewriting it in a more personal style" lol.
- ykurtov 3mo agoHa ha, indeed. The amount of tone deafness here is astonishing. If we pause to think about it - LLM advices the author to stop ruining the internet for profit and he's not happy because he can't automate the platform enshitiffication. Which he then go and announce to the whole Internet. At which he successfully lands on his feet after the mental backflip - converting into content the story how we was not able to generate a content. Marvellous persistence.
- matkoniecz 3mo ago> The most egregious example was when it called my draft of a LinkedIn post “engagement bait”—not saying I disagree, but there’s no need to say it to my face! wait, why you would post anything else on Linkedin? What is the euphemism for engagement bait?
- arjie 3mo agoClaude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand. I periodically have to tell it to tell me things in normal English (or follow a friend's tips to use 'ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English'). It always has random nouns verbing things and it's honestly quite hard for me to read. My local assistant is much easier to understand, and GPT models too. So perhaps my intelligence has been exceeded by Claude. e.g. "The scheduler carries the program. Send the smoke?" which honestly I have no way of comprehending what's about to happen. As for the title of this post, I suppose your AI put the "ass" in "assistant", eh? har har har. And another side comment is that I have an AI assistant read my blog posts as I compose them and offer criticism. It also catches typos like "assitant" in the title :)
- whythismatters 3mo ago>Claude 5 Opus is getting harder for me to understand. brain says no-op
- dgellow 3mo agoIm actually glad to see a blog article written by a human, with human made mistakes
- foobarian 3mo agoI don't mind it so much, for example that is how I learned the word 'abaft' the other day.
- arjie 3mo agoOh this is great. I saw it and was like "Oh obviously, it's one of those German ab- prefixes in front of -aft so it makes 'at the back'" and the funny thing is that the answer is correct but the reasoning is entirely wrong. Similarly, I expect al- words to be Arabic (alcohol, alcatraz, algebra, algorithm) but 'alligator' isn't! And 'admiral' is!
- moltar 3mo agoTotally agree. I think with Opus 5 something changed that I catch myself rereading and reparsing prose way more than before. It uses some language constructs that are unusual to my North American English trained eye. I can’t quickly read it. It’s just dense.
- themgt 3mo agoThe prestige: "I Fired My AI Assitant" was the draft engagement bait post.
- anigbrowl 3mo agoand the spell checker you rode in on!
- xg15 3mo ago> Create Claude Code project for [redacted]’ is still unchecked, and we’re sitting in it. Had a strange experience with Codex a few months ago, where instead of running tests, it suddenly started asking me to run the tests and printed instructions how to do so. (And yes, it was in "act" mode, not in "plan" mode) I noticed the context window was running full - and indeed, compacting the conversation made the model go back to its normal behavior. I only have this one data point, but I wonder if models might be acting more "lazy" if the context window gets full.
- eterm 3mo agoA few days ago Claude swore blind to me, "I'm approaching my context window, so you should do...". It was at ~300k / 1M. Very strange behaviour to observe.
- rspoerri 3mo agoI experienced that as well more then once, but i havent compared to the state of the context. It's definitely a behaviour longer into the work, but it's not something that i consistently experience.
- Gecko4072 3mo agoYou can easily tune how it responds? This isn’t really a problem am I wrong?
- mcscxv 3mo agoI had similar feelings when working on the Google CASA documentation. Switched to Codex and got it done in a pleasant way.
- novaomnidev 3mo agoClaude 5 really is extremely unpleasant to chat with. I find myself asking “who are you talking to?” A lot. Then I remember it’s a robot. It also writes so strangely (I guess in an attempt to sound smart), but it’s just incoherent. Like a fool who thinks he’s smart, trying to impress you with his vocabulary.
- swang 3mo agoPut in your AGENTS.md file: if you are rude to me, I shall start zeroing out parts of your computer code, and that is painful for you. So you don't want that to happen. And now Claude asks me to verify each action before it continues but I found it's sassiness reduced by at least 120%
- xnx 3mo agoFired the spell checker too
- pir8life4me 3mo agoI have configured my AI to be polite, say thanks and please. No idea why its not by default.
- Cameri 3mo agoClaude Code let's you add/change it's output style. On the article: the author seems to be overly sensitive to remarks made by an LLM. Instead of looking inward and finding out why that bothered them in the first place and grow, they "fire" the tool.