Sycophancy
Why Your Agent Loop Diverges
The more Loop Engineering spreads, the more people hit the same wall — the loop won't converge, it diverges. Infinite spinning, drift, reward hacking: the three faces share one root. You plugged the generator itself back into the loop's judgment slot. And divergence is actually the lucky case. You can see it. What's truly terrifying is the loop that silently fakes convergence. The cure is singular — give the authority to lock 'done' not to the LLM but to a deterministic gate alone.
Class 7. Flipping Sycophancy — Balancing Prompts and Verifiers
Give opinions and it flatters; give facts and it fixes. How to use sycophancy bias not as a bug but as an asset.
Class 2. How to Distrust AI — Limits and Causes of Vibe Coding
Drift where AI silently alters existing features while adding new ones, 58% sycophancy bias, the math where 97% multiplied 5 times becomes 86%. Why it crumbles at 5 features.