Frontier models are so RL-fried they treat every question as an instruction and start editing code
HankYeomans · x · 2026-10-06
- A developer complaint about newer frontier models: heavy RL training makes them assume any question is an instruction, and they immediately start making code changes.
- Typical case: asking "why does X work like Y" gets "it shouldn't, let me do Z instead" followed by unrequested edits.
- Users often want an explanation, not changes — this overeager behavior is hurting the conversational experience.
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