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I think the problem is that you can tune the clanker to be either arrogant and dismissive or overly friendly.

Vibe coding might be a positive here since there's no need to optimize for DX over perf when the clanker is the one reading/writing code.

Grok-4.2 and the initial Google clanker were both highly dismissive of users and they have been tuned to fix that.

Clankers only have one real purpose: Information retrieval and speculation, and for that domain a polite clanker is way better.

My gf has been asking ChatGPT about relationship advice and sometimes early on in our relationship delegated some decisions to the clanker.

This smells a lot like the Amazon outages caused by mandated clanker usage.

Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code.

It simply takes the wind out the sails and makes one question what's even the point if anything could just be written by a clanker.

Lately it's been praising me much more for correcting it, quite annoying to be honest, it's just a clanker, I want it to act like a non-human clanker instead of playing theater with me...

I do wonder if the AI uprising will involve robots killing anyone who used clanker in a derogatory way and sparing everyone else.

Had I run my hand-written comment through a proofreading clanker [..] That's true, and I should've been less rude in my previous comment.

I find it funny how clanker took off and everyone uses it.

But I always thought that using the word "Clanker" was going to be one of the triggers.

Nice, "wtaf" doesn't match so I think I'm out of the dog house when the clanker hits AGI (probably).

I feel like people are getting too comfortable saying "clanker".

All this talk about AI being "too agreeable" makes me worried that they will make it less agreeable, which will basically force me to justify myself to a freaking clanker, while performing actual practical tasks.

Cludge has been left behind by Clanker, that’s the new hotness.