The current LLM “focus on anthropomorphic interfaces—just have a chat!—makes them charming, misguides us into attributing more agency and intelligence than they have, which makes it even more challenging for people to control or use them predictably. Sycophancy is one of the many challenges here, for example.”
“Coding assistants, particularly agents, are narrower in their interface, but they build on a similar interaction model. They aim to look like developers, independent entities that can do the actual work.”
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