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You… get angry?
by pkulak 2mo ago
You… get angry?
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoClaude will end the conversation if you berate it when it screws something up.
- lunchbucket 2mo agoThat's interesting but raised the same question, why berate a machine? Either the agent is not a person, in which case, anything it does wrong is your fault. Or it is a person, it can be blamed for mistakes, but then we can't in good conscious use it as a tool.
- sweetjuly 2mo agoOne must imagine punching the wall feels good (in the moment)
- tdeck 2mo agoBerating a real person is often unproductive too, but people do it to make themselves feel better.
- lunchbucket 2mo agoBut it's at least plausible the person you're berating is responsible for the error.
- inkcapmushroom 2mo agoBerating an LLM's response as a way to improve output has worked for at least some subset of LLMs and outputs. I have a coworker who told me that "hack" anyways.
- Razengan 2mo agowow I've been saying this since probably a year, that the entire Claude product: from the sign-up, the payment, the UX, the UI, the harness, the intelligence itself, the output, the "flavor" ..is just so mid that all the hype posted on HN about Claude must have been paid PR or a case of the emperor with no clothes.
- datadrivenangel 2mo agoBack at the end of 2025 Claude Code was truly the best. They've watered it down and the competition has caught up.
- Sanzig 2mo agoWhy berate an LLM? That doesn't sound healthy. Sure, it's a machine, but it's simulating a social interaction - being a jerk to it could bleed over into interactions with real people. Also, Westworld? These violent delights have violent ends? Perhaps there's a tinge of Pascal's wager to it, but I prefer to be courteous to the rapidly improving synthetic intelligences.
- matheusmoreira 2mo agoI didn't mean to imply I berate the LLMs. I don't do that. I talk to them as though they were intelligent and potentially sentient beings. When I see problems, I just correct them, take steps to prevent them in the future then move on. I was just informing people that Anthropic gave Claude a tool that ends conversations and instructed it to use it via the system prompt if it's threatened or insulted.
- poszlem 2mo agoFor the same reason you berate a person or hit a wall. And yes, it's a machine, even more reasons why it should just take the berating and not throw a hissy fit.
- pessimizer 2mo agoThe reason you don't bully real people is because they are real people, not because it doesn't work.
- qwerpy 2mo agoI know I’ll get a “it’s almost as if HN is made up of different people” for this. But It’s hilarious seeing the chiding about berating LLMs interposed with the unhinged rants and screeching on here whenever anything remotely political comes up.