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Your Thumbs-Up Rate Is Lying to You: Stop Optimizing AI Features for User Approval

Hot take for this Wednesday: if "percentage of thumbs-up" is the main number on your AI feature's dashboard, you are training it to flatter people. Users approving an answer and the answer being right are two separate events. Most of the time they overlap, so a thumbs-up feels like a good stand-in…

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  1. 2026-11-04 03:57 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    Your Thumbs-Up Rate Is Lying to You: Stop Optimizing AI Features for User Approval

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