{"podcast":{"title":"LessWrong (Curated & Popular)","slug":"lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","podcast_index_feed_id":5643401,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2037297.rss","website_url":"https://sites.libsyn.com/421877","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/xq8g0aka74ttwoa9xkxlmy5fn9oa?.jpg","author":"LessWrong","episode_count":859,"summary":"Audio narrations of LessWrong posts. Includes all curated posts and all posts with 125+ karma. If you'd like more, subscribe to the “Lesswrong (30+ karma)” feed.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401"},"episode":{"title":"\"llm assistant personas seem increasingly incoherent (some subjective observations)\" by nostalgebraist","slug":"llm-assistant-personas-seem-increasingly-incoherent-some-subjective-observations-by-nostalgebraist","published_at":"2026-04-29T19:45:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/llm-assistant-personas-seem-increasingly-incoherent-some-subjective-observations-by-nostalgebraist","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19099089-llm-assistant-personas-seem-increasingly-incoherent-some-subjective-observations-by-nostalgebraist.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2037297/episodes/19099089-llm-assistant-personas-seem-increasingly-incoherent-some-subjective-observations-by-nostalgebraist.mp3","summary":"(This was originally going to be a \"quick take\" but then it got a bit long. Just FYI.) There's this weird trend I perceive with the personas of LLM assistants over time. It feels like they're getting less \"coherent\" in a certain sense, even as the models get more capable. When I read samples from older chat-tuned models, it's striking how \"mode-collapsed\" they feel relative to recent models like Claude Opus 4.6 or GPT-5.4.[1] This is most straightforwardly obvious when it comes to text...","meta_description":"(This was originally going to be a \"quick take\" but then it got a bit long. Just FYI.) There's this weird trend I perceive with the personas of LLM assist…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":946,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/episodes/llm-assistant-personas-seem-increasingly-incoherent-some-subjective-observations-by-nostalgebraist/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/lesswrong-curated-popular-5643401/llm-assistant-personas-seem-increasingly-incoherent-some-subjective-observations-by-nostalgebraist.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}