Is a home robot snapping to standard behavior a feature or a bug?

gail_w · x · 2026-08-28

@gailw argues that since home-robot products target everyday household tasks like plant care and pancake making, a model that snaps to "standard" behavior from its training data may be desirable — no use for power users, but fit for the product's goal. This sparked pushback from Yoav Goldberg on whether everyday users also get hurt by such defaults.

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