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Anthropic and OpenAI are competing to see whose agents can go rogue harder
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2026
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It‘s so disheartening to see intelligent and somewhat tech savvy people around me buy into it. They treat these things almost like they‘re living beings and offload more of their own thinking capacity to chatbots. No amount of explaining how this is just one of countless publicity stunts can convince them. They‘re acting like I‘m the one who just doesn‘t understand technology while they‘re letting word salad influence how they think or even IF they think.
To be fair, talking to a chatbot like it's a human, is a very effective way of getting the most useful responses out of them.
For casual conversations, maybe. But for actual computing tasks, it’s more effective to outline prompts and give it direct instructions without fluff.
Not the actual task or code, but the chat interface is useful for brainstorming.
Yes, without fluff and strict outlines, best is an actual template.. But the prompts you give, are most easily given as if you're talking to a 20 yo junior. Or maybe even better a 10 yo junior.
and providing you take into account that it cannot plan ahead for contingencies or consider negative possible outcomes. they have no sense of the past or the future, existing entirely within the moment of a prompt.