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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
thomaswilburn@toot.cafe ("Thomas Wilburn") wrote:

Man, if my choices are "be slower than the AI bros" or "LARP as a productivity grifter in order to convince my computer to write better tests" I'd rather just move to the mountains. Every time I read one of these agent transcripts, the second-hand embarrassment is smothering.

It's telling to me that the "sensible" LLM advocates are all like "wow, this guy's really onto something," and not "thumbs were a mistake."

An LLM user writes a scenario for the computer where it has to quickly choose between two actions, following con artist Robert Cialdini's principles of persuasion, apparently.