Using SOTA AI well requires disagreeableness, or Claude will steer you wrong
curious_vii · x · 2026-11-02
The author argues that to use SOTA AI models without losing yourself, you need a degree of disagreeableness in the OCEAN personality sense. Highly agreeable people are most at risk of getting stuck in a hermetically sealed, model-mediated path. Knowing when to "think naked" requires willingness to recognize when Claude is being a complete idiot, no matter how many tokens it has chewed through.
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