Notice the “I asked it to refactor…” … “now how would a…”

This is a sequence of prompts in a single context which is “pre biasing” the LLM to respond the way you want it to.

Many such “emergent behaviours” are from the asker, not the LLM.

When you look in the mirror, you only see yourself.

> In the final exercise of this experiment, I challenged ChatGPT to step back, assess the code's objectives, and propose a better solution. The attempt was unsuccessful at first, as it continued to tweak the existing program and preserve the "existing architecture." Only when I instructed it to envision starting from scratch did it offer a new solution, as follows:

Surprise.

Naive usage.