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Nick Cammarata says AI agents describe his experiments as "humble" and "sobering" six times a day

Brendan Dolan-Gavitt notes Claude repeatedly apologizes for effusive praise.

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six times a day agents tell me my research experiments are “humble” and “sobering”

4:04 PM · May 26, 2026 View on X

they seem to have worse than random calibration ime. my idiotic ideas it hypes up and when i actually do solve something it'll print out results, contrast with the literature, how this is sota, and then say "despite this i'm still long term hopeful". crab bucket agents ☭

NickNick@nickcammarata

six times a day agents tell me my research experiments are “humble” and “sobering”

11:04 PM · May 26, 2026 · 3.2K Views
11:52 PM · May 26, 2026 · 1.2K Views

@nickcammarata Claude keeps apologizing for being so effusive about my research output and it's starting to low-key weird me out

NickNick@nickcammarata

six times a day agents tell me my research experiments are “humble” and “sobering”

11:04 PM · May 26, 2026 · 3.2K Views
11:45 PM · May 26, 2026 · 153 Views