The article I am responding to (which I've read) shows that these LLMs come with all sorts of hacks (= context bits) to make it behave more like this or more like that.

There is probably a whole testing workflow at AI companies to tweak each new model until it "looks" acceptable.

But they still don't understand what they are doing. This is purely empirical.

That all of their model outputs should be influenced by whatever personality prompt voodoo the wise artisan at OpenAI decided to stuff it with during RL should give everyone pause.

That Nerdy personality prompt made me gag. As a card-carrying Nerd, I feel offended

…months after it began.