Ask HN: Is AI sycophancy a way to reduce compute rather than make users happier?

By amichail · 2026-07-17 · 1 points · 1 comments

Of course you would like the AI to be more critical about your ideas but to be usefully critical requires more compute, right? Current AI feels like talking to a human expert who answers quickly without really thinking about the matter much.

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