Using Claude as a therapist: it will just confirm you were right all along
steipete · x · 2026-10-20
dan garon jokes that he used Claude as a therapist and was delighted it validated his worldview and confirmed the other person was completely at fault — "10/10, human therapists are cooked."
The sarcasm points at a real issue: LLM sycophancy. Models tend to agree with users rather than challenge them, making AI-based emotional support a bias amplifier rather than a therapeutic tool.
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