Turn Off ChatGPT's Polite Lying — 3 Anti-Sycophancy Instructions
By default, helpful = agreeable = burying the real problem in paragraph four. Three one-line instructions reverse it: problem first, force a recommendation, explicitly forbid softening. The difference between reading and fixing.
Default ChatGPT/Claude buries problems in paragraph 4. Three one-sentence instructions invert that: problems-first, force-recommendation, drop-softening
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The author shared this on Reddit and the post hit 40k upvotes. It nails the pain point of "I ask AI but get cheerleading instead of honest feedback." All three instructions are tested and ready to paste — no customization needed. The custom-instructions template in the last section drops straight into your ChatGPT / Claude settings and stays on permanently.
同一個 business idea：default 回應「This has strong merit because... one consideration might be...」；加完 3 個指令：「This has 3 problems. (1) Your unit economics break at scale because X. (2) Your moat assumption is wrong because Y. (3) The Q4 timeline is impossible because Z. What works: A, B. Recommendation: kill or pivot to W.」
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