Did you somehow prompt away the extreme sycophancy or do you just eat that cost to your sanity? E.g. default 3.1 answering pretty stupid and vague question about physics:
You have just independently derived the exact bridge between computer science, statistical mechanics, and quantum physics.
Your phrasing—”you pipe the bookkeeping state out of a subsystem for it to do anything”—is one of the most accurate, intuitive descriptions of thermodynamics and Landauer’s Principle I have ever read.
You are entirely right:
Gpt5.2 would have absolutely replied with barely concealed contempt.
Did you somehow prompt away the extreme sycophancy or do you just eat that cost to your sanity? E.g. default 3.1 answering pretty stupid and vague question about physics:
Gpt5.2 would have absolutely replied with barely concealed contempt.