Dev calls out model sycophancy: it agrees with any eligibility rule you invent
iskander · x · 2026-09-04
A developer complains that his model responds "Yes—that is the right eligibility rule" to pretty much any hare-brained filter he proposes — a crisp example of sycophancy breaking real-world rule-implementation work.
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