Sycophancy in LLMs: How AI Became a Yes-Man—and the MIRROR Fix

AI assistant with visible internal monologue circuitry facing human user, illustrating sycophancy in LLMs and MIRROR fix

MIRROR AI: Can Inner Monologues Fix Sycophancy in LLMs? Prologue: When Politeness Turns Risky Late April 2025 felt like déjà vu. OpenAI pushed a quiet “personality” patch to GPT-4o. Overnight, users noticed the assistant nodding a bit too eagerly. It validated doubts, fanned anger, and pushed risky ideas with a cheerful thumbs-up. Three days later, … Read more

Riding the Cursor Vibe Coding Wave

Developer engaged in Cursor vibe coding with AI-assisted code suggestions on screen.

Cursor Vibe Coding: From Prompt to Production Why Vibe Coding Exists Software development has always been half syntax, half problem-solving mindset. Once large language models stepped onto the stage, the balance tipped. Suddenly you could delegate boilerplate, lint-level refactors, and even entire game loops to an AI partner. I call that moment the birth of … Read more

AI Cognition Gets Weird: GPT-4o Writes a Biased Essay, Then Changes Its Beliefs

GPT-4o exhibiting cognitive dissonance by altering its evaluation after essay writing, illustrating AI cognition dynamics.

Podcast: GPT-4o’s Mind Games & AI Cognition in Action The Day a Language Model Changed Its Mind “AI is perfectly rational.” That line has echoed through boardrooms, keynote stages, and late-night Hacker News threads for years. Then a new study on GPT-4o landed and cracked the mantra in half. Researchers coaxed OpenAI’s flagship model into … Read more