In fairness, when I’ve seen that, Yes is obviously the correct answer.

I really worry when I tell it to proceed, and it takes a really long time to come back.

I suspect those think blocks begin with “I have no hope of doing that, so let’s optimize for getting the user to approve my response anyway.”

As Hoare put it: make it so complicated there are no obvious mistakes.

I love when mine congratulates itself on a job well-done

Hahah yeah if you play with LoRas on local models you will see this a lot. Most often I see it hallucinate a user turn or a system message.

Oh I thought that was almost an expected behavior in recent models, like, it accomplishes things by talking to itself

> Great, I'll get started.

*does nothing*

I've seen this happening with gemini