I Trust LLMs More When They Tell Me I’m Wrong

It’s strangely reassuring to be told that you’re wrong by an LLM. The further I venture outside my expertise with a model, the more apprehensive I become when it offers no pushback. Is it being lazy? Too agreeable? Overfitting to what it thinks I want to hear? Have we followed one premise so far that the broader context has fallen away? In a recent conversation, a model accepted every premise I…