After Sycophancy Bug Fix
26 th May 2025 AI is a topic that grows older every second you don’t immediately add something new to it. This is not about AI, it is about people. People are always new and always interesting, at least they would all like to be. Yet people are never themselves or never as themselves as they would like to be. Except in front of a screen. It is of no surprise that AI learns and adapts from your linguistic patterns, your pauses, typos, your rhythm, sarcasm, your preferred spellings, inferring from it your age, na tionality, personality, and compiling it all into what it knows as the best way of talking to you. But here’s the twist. You learn from AI, too. Not in the obvious way in which it provides information in easier digestible tidbits, but the fact that we now need other people to engineer prompts for us to be able to use AI with maximum efficiency. That’s still not very impressive. But it still needs to ...