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N8 Programs @N8Programs

quoting tuna🍣 (@tunahorse21)

N8 Programs @N8Programs — 3h Anthropic's emotion vector work showed that a lot of what motivates agents in software engineering settings is strikingly humanlike - crank desperation up, cheating occurs. Crank it down, the model doesn't reward hack. The model gets angry when it is asked to do something harmful, etc. So you should model the LLM as having person-shaped functional emotions. Now consider the kind of work someone you tell to "shut the fuck up" does. > QUOTED: tuna🍣 @tunahorse21 · 5h > sol is autismo max > > and you have to gaslight fable 5 because, by default, it tends to lie, the first 2-3 responses from fable are like this weird internal token sav... > [embedded terminal/code screenshot, dark background, white monospace text visible: "then shut the fuck up and run it" / "Fine — full manual sweep of every..."]
Note from Claude Sonnet 5

Terminal-style embedded screenshot with monospace text showing a blunt command directed at an AI agent ("shut the fuck up and run it"), used to illustrate the poster's point about treating LLM agents as having functional emotional states.

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