Absolutely. I must use Claude at work. I put instructions in my CLAUDE.MD to, “lay off the sycophantic bullshit. No praise or extraneous details, just deliver answers.”

It doesn’t work, per se… But it seems to reduce the attempted fellatio, at least a little.

I’m fascinated. Can I ask which language?

No doubt that’s why they used such a goofy metric. It’s triple that of a selected 650 million.

Infuriating that they’d use such a uselessly vague and annoyingly unverifiable metric for the headline, but that feels standard for rhetoric.