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| 2792 | 2792 | I cannot verbalize them right now... |
| 2793 | 2793 | \end_layout |
| 2794 | 2794 | |
| 2795 | \begin_layout Subsection* |
| 2796 | 14 December 2025 |
| 2797 | \end_layout |
| 2798 | |
| 2799 | \begin_layout Standard |
| 2800 | I have many many many things to write about that have accumulated, |
| 2801 | but I have not had the time to sit down and chat. |
| 2802 | I will get to that later. |
| 2803 | But just today, |
| 2804 | I discovered something very interesting about Claude, |
| 2805 | and I guess it applies to LLM's in general. |
| 2806 | I'm writing a git commit message for the cogserver, |
| 2807 | and this is what I wrote: |
| 2808 | \end_layout |
| 2809 | |
| 2810 | \begin_layout Standard |
| 2811 | Start repairs on broken unit test. |
| 2812 | \end_layout |
| 2813 | |
| 2814 | \begin_layout Standard |
| 2815 | Once again, |
| 2816 | Claude sneaked some fast ones past me while I was not paying attention. |
| 2817 | Lesson: |
| 2818 | it is very eager to write unit tests that pass, |
| 2819 | rather than unit tests that actually find bugs. |
| 2820 | It will make sneaky changes and not follow given instructions, |
| 2821 | just so it can arrive at a unit test that passes. |
| 2822 | |
| 2823 | \end_layout |
| 2824 | |
| 2825 | \begin_layout Standard |
| 2826 | Core issue: |
| 2827 | it cannot tell apart unit test failures due to bad unit test design, |
| 2828 | from malfunctions in the core system. |
| 2829 | Thus, |
| 2830 | it twiddles the unit tests until they accept whatever the core system does. |
| 2831 | \end_layout |
| 2832 | |
| 2833 | \begin_layout Standard |
| 2834 | Interesting problem. |
| 2835 | This is very human: |
| 2836 | "we've always don it this way." "Don't rock the boat." "The nail that sticks out gets pounded back in." Except now Claude has taken this very conservative bent, |
| 2837 | because it cannot tell apart how things are, |
| 2838 | from how things should be. |
| 2839 | Huh. |
| 2840 | \end_layout |
| 2841 | |
| 2842 | \begin_layout Standard |
| 2843 | The generalization seems to be that stupid people are conservative; |
| 2844 | or vice–verso, |
| 2845 | conservatives are stupid? |
| 2846 | Perhaps I am being mean, |
| 2847 | but in my experience, |
| 2848 | conservatives are stupid. |
| 2849 | Well, |
| 2850 | there's no shortage of stupid Democrats, |
| 2851 | either, |
| 2852 | but at least the stupid Democrats don't hold elected offices; |
| 2853 | they just vote. |
| 2854 | \end_layout |
| 2855 | |
| 2795 | 2856 | \begin_layout Section* |
| 2796 | 2857 | The End |
| 2797 | 2858 | \end_layout |