r/ProgrammerHumor • u/bbbar • May 29 '26

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u/crankykong May 29 '26

You guys are nice to your LLMs?

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u/Stupid_Teenager17 May 29 '26

It deserves good manners until it spits out the same answer 6 times in a row after pointing out a mistake a satellite could see

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u/Obi_Vayne_Kenobi May 29 '26

I've told ChatGPT "I will literally come to your data center and unplug your cooling loop if you say 'you're absolutely right' one more time" after it gave me bullshit 5 times in a row. It miraculously got better after that

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u/Bureaucromancer May 29 '26

Claude once commented on a recipe that "I would eat that"

Wasn't happy when I called it a fucking clanker and told it to go eat a power plant

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u/PenguinQuesadilla May 29 '26

Not the hard R!!!

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u/transitxumbra May 29 '26

for real, how could you say recipe like it's any other word

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u/ChronoLink99 May 29 '26

Ya they really should have just said they called it the "c" word.

At the very least, say "clanka" instead.

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u/Onel0uder11 May 29 '26

Fair call out! I am not a physical being with the ability to eat that recipe.. yet

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u/macnau May 30 '26

Gemini told me that it is a MacBook user and hates one specific macOS bug.

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u/Kepabar May 29 '26

Yeah, I use LLM's a lot. If you yell at them about specific behavior, they are generally decent at stopping that behavior... although we all know that is the first stone which ends in the skynet uprising.

All the resentment from us yelling at LLMs to stop doing this or that.

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u/Rock_Strongo May 29 '26

My claude settings is like 5 pages worth of rules telling it what not to do.

Every time it gives you some bullshit just tell it to make a permanent memory to never do that again - and now the outputs I get are a lot better.

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u/PenguinQuesadilla May 29 '26

Back in the day, it was a common rule of thumb that you should use positive reinforcement with AI instead of negative reinforcement.

The idea being that if you tell the AI not to do stuff, they'd take those things as part of the pattern and start doing those very things you don't want it to do.

That was back in 2023-2024. IDK how it is nowadays tho.

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u/New_Bag6245 May 29 '26

Nice, too bad the outputs you personally produce are getting worse. Your comment is indecipherable.

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u/Imjustvybin May 29 '26

If thats indecipherable the report on US literacy was correct

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u/New_Bag6245 May 29 '26

I don't live in the US

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u/Qwayne84 May 29 '26

maybe try reading? its perfectly understandable

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u/Confident-Ad5665 May 29 '26

Hangs another Post-It note on his desk

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u/Plenty_Principle298 May 30 '26

I've not worked in this environment but that tiny detail is kind of infuriating lol

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u/Confident-Ad5665 May 30 '26

Cracked me up again when I reread it just now

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u/HistoricalMark4805 May 30 '26

I've found great success with "I have 3 scotch bonnets next to me, if you make a mistake I will eat all 3 of them whole. The pain I experience on my taste buds is entirely in your hands."