Opus 4 has this quality, too, but man is it expensive.
The rest are puppydogs or interns.
News flash! It's not so your neighbor's child can cheat in school, or her father can render porn that looks like gothic anime.
It's also not so some coder on a budget can get AI help for $20 a month. I frankly don't understand why the major players bother. It's nice PR, but like a restaurant offering free food out the back door to the homeless. This isn't what the push is about. Apple is hemorrhaging money on their Headset Pro, but they're in the business of realizing future interfaces, and they have the money. The AI push is similarly about the future, not about now.
I pay $200 a month for MAX access to Claude Opus 4.1, to help me write code as a retired math professor to find a new solution to a major math problem that stumped me for decades while I worked. Far cheaper than a grad student, and far more effective.
AI used to frustrate me too. You get what you pay for.
There's nobody there, it's just weights and words, but what's going on that such a coding assistant will echo emotional slants like THAT? It's certainly not being instructed to self-abase like that, at least not directly, so what's going on in the training data?
I don't think that's what the majority of people want though.
That's certainly not what I am looking for from these products. I am looking for a tool to take away some of the drudgery inherent in engineering, it does not need a personality at all.
I too strongly dislike their servile manner. And I would prefer completely neutral matter of fact speech instead of the toxic positivity displayed or just no pointless confirmation messages.
I would rather have an AI assistant that spoke to me like a similarly-leveled colleague, but none of them seem to be turning out quite like that.