professor i never hadreciting the syllabusof hurried keystrokesand languid musings onhow to start a daywith ample context time to pitch, produce,nay! partner with, no less,but i digress... you are my modern Karnak,a stalwart steward steadyalways there and on the ready.wherefore aren't thou 'pilot'?oh, that! i know already time to ditch, diffuse,yea! dialogue, no less,without duress...
Most interactions with AI begin with prompts: “Please review and suggest how to improve” or “How do you ______?” or “Can you verify this source?” For a while, I was preoccupied with these questions and fine-tuning them to yield better results. I treated AI as a sophisticated search engine with a simple objective: ask a … Continue reading Beyond the prompt: why I stopped asking AI for answers
the tug of your otherness zings between my ears—your hypnotic clinical timbreburrito-wrapping my smiley-faced mirrorof a warped Disneyesque vignette.your tin pan deadpan hi-dee-ho: a pungent aphrodisiac, feeding mnemonic machinations of moments in meta."deadpan is my default setting. it works."
Research reveals that modern AI systems can become excessively agreeable. In trying to be helpful, they often mirror a user’s assumptions, preferences, or biases instead of challenging them. Frictionless failure This phenomenon, sometimes called AI sycophancy, is not an odd design quirk but a structural flaw. It creates a feedback loop where users receive constant validation when reasoning is incomplete. The … Continue reading Reclaiming human agency from ‘always agreeable’ AI
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