Do kids learn well when you only tell them what NOT to do? Of course not! You should be explaining how to do things correctly, and most importantly the WHY, as well as providing examples of both the "correct" and "incorrect" ways (also explaining why an example is incorrect).
They have a vast latent knowledge base, infinite patience and zero capacity for making personal judgement calls. You give one a goal and it will try to meet that goal.
A scary image, if we consider agents to develop anything like a conscience at some point in time. Of course, with the current approach they never might, but are we so sure?
Bbbbut a guy from Anthropic, just this last Friday, told me to think of Claude as my "brilliant coworker"! Are you telling me that's not true!?