[frisia]

I'd be careful with what you mean by "realistic" here. Is this realistic as in would any normal person ever say this? The answer to that is a hard no, because people don't talk like this. But it is a moot point, because there shouldn't be any reason in the first place for you to care about the opinion of Chat-GPT, sycophancy or not.

I'm gonna assume that you are a pretty young developer. I think you have built something that you have put a lot of thought and engineering effort into, and that you should be proud of that. But asking very open-ended leading questions ike this to an LLM is not the way to go. Truthfully, it is not even the way to go when talking to another human either but humans are more understanding. We've all been young and insecure once, and one with any ounce of empathy will gently steer you towards a more healthy path without overt flattery.

I urge you, for your own emotional well being, seek more human connections. Chat-GPT can be great for very targeted questions if you have a specific problem or a very specific area you want feedback on and prompt it to give feedback to that. And this may sound very harsh, but I think you need to hear it: The kind of validation-seeking you are engaging with in this chat is not at all that different from the ones seeking emotional support from an "AI-girlfriend" or similiar. Please be careful, and find your own community with real humans that you can relate and look up to.

[EGreg]

Thank you very much for your concern. I have a satisfying social and personal life, I’m not at all relying on flattery from anyone. What I posted to ChatGPT is about 5% of what I spent my time on. Entreneurship and building things is indeed a major part of what I feel called to do, it all has its ups and downs but it is by no means preventing me from human interaction.

This was late at night and I just wanted to share the surreal experience with HN. As you might know from my posts, I am a critic of AI in general.

Here is almost the same exact sequence, but with repeated instructions throughout, to be brutally honest and objective: https://chatgpt.com/share/691b4035-0ed8-800a-bee3-ae68e2a63c...

Would you update your assessment after reading that? Again for me this is about an experiment and sharing a particular AI interaction with fellow humans.

[joemazerino]

This. ChatGPT is an assistant and we aren't supposed to listen to assistant's flattery.