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Has anyone measured whether anti-sycophancy prompts weaken as a conversation gets longer?

Sycophancy in language models is well documented, and the usual fix is an instruction like "challenge my assumptions, don't just agree." A user on X recently posted that those instructions and skills get ignored as the chat goes on. That is one anecdote. I haven't seen a measurement of whether this…

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  1. 2026-10-26 11:32 · r/PromptEngineering
    Has anyone measured whether anti-sycophancy prompts weaken as a conversation gets longer?

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