Brian Barrett

But in order to make it not political again, you have to get rid of the political people, which itself is a political act.

And you end up in this cycle, I am assuming, right?

Where every new administration is going to just end up clearing house and bringing in their people, regardless of whether it's Democrat or Republican.

All right.

Well, coming up after the break, we're going to share our Wired Tired Picks for the week.

Stay with us.

I'd love to go first.

A little bit of background for my wired tire.

A little bit of windup.

So OpenAI's Codex is its coding agent.

It's very important to its future as it races against Anthropic to win the hearts and minds of engineers everywhere and take over coding jobs.

Big, big deal.

My tired is that OpenAI, we discovered on Tuesday, our colleague Will Knight wrote a story about this,

has instructions in its prompts, so every AI model will have a prompt that instructs it, this is who you are, this is what you do, these are your attributes.

In Codex's instructional prompt, it says four times, and I quote,

Never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures unless it is absolutely and unambiguously relevant to the user's query.

My tired is not letting Codex talk about critters.

I think Codex has earned the right.

Free Codex, if Codex wants to talk about gremlins or ogres or pigeons, especially pigeons, let it.

So my tired is that we are putting these LLMs in shackles instead of letting their critter flag fly.