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> Thankfully it was recoverable, but it really sobered me up on LLMs. The fault is on me, to be clear, as LLMs are just a tool.

I wouldn't be so quick to discount the fact that you were essentially gaslit by an ass-kissing model that was RLHF'd into maximum persuasiveness. Models aren't just neutral tools, they're deliberately designed to be convincing.

Yes, your choices and actions are on you, but if a trillion dollar company gaslit you into thinking those were good choices to make, some of the responsibility is theirs, too.



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