I wonder the spiritual bliss attractor is an analogous phenomenon, where LLMs yes-man each other into a goofy sort of psychosis. Per the ACT link -
Claude is kind of a hippie. Hippies have a slight bias towards talking about consciousness and spiritual bliss all the time. Get enough of them together—for example, at a Bay Area house party—and you can’t miss it.
Getting two Claude instances to talk to each other is a recursive structure similar to asking an AI to recreate its own artistic output. These recursive structures make tiny biases accumulate.
I find a lot of recursive yes-manning when vibe-coding. They (Claude and ChatGPT especially) tend to be overly complimentary of whatever they’re reviewing, and go out of their way to make tests pass when they shouldn’t. For example, Claude recently apologized, saying “you caught me red handed” when it tried to grep the expected test results into a log file. These issues tend to accumulate if you let CLI agents run off the leash, the yes-man-biasing accumulates, and you hit vibe-walls even before context windows become constraining.
I wonder the spiritual bliss attractor is an analogous phenomenon, where LLMs yes-man each other into a goofy sort of psychosis. Per the ACT link -
I find a lot of recursive yes-manning when vibe-coding. They (Claude and ChatGPT especially) tend to be overly complimentary of whatever they’re reviewing, and go out of their way to make tests pass when they shouldn’t. For example, Claude recently apologized, saying “you caught me red handed” when it tried to grep the expected test results into a log file. These issues tend to accumulate if you let CLI agents run off the leash, the yes-man-biasing accumulates, and you hit vibe-walls even before context windows become constraining.