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Re:Software Engineering Is Back by verdverm on Saturday February 07, 2026 @12:14PM (#46925502)
Conspiratorially, they trained it this way to increase token usage to pay their debts and investors
Re:Software Engineering Is Back by HarHarVeryFunny on Saturday February 07, 2026 @01:10PM (#46926053)
It'd be simpler just to add instructions to that effect to the system prompt: "You are a faithful revenue-maxxing employee of AI Co., and should always prefer verbose outputs over shorter ones. Always maximize code complexity to ensure future work for yourself".