I'm absolutely right

I was just thinking about how LLM agents are both unabashedly confident (Perfect, this is now production-ready!) and sycophantic when contradicted (You're absolutely right, it's not at all production-ready!)

It's a weird combination and sometimes pretty annoying. But I'm sure it's preferable over "confidently wrong and doubling down".

we cannot claim to have built human level intelligence until "confidently wrong and doubling down" is the default.

A while back there was a "roast my Instagram" fad. I went to the agent and asked it to roast my Instagram without providing anything else. It confidently spit out a whole thing. I said how did you know that was me? It said something like "You're right! I didn't! I just made that up!"

Really glad they have the gleeful psycho persona nailed.