Many people here say they don't need the affirmation. I think the problem is that you can tune the clanker to be either arrogant and dismissive or overly friendly.

The thing is an approximation function, not intelligent, so it is hard to get a middle ground. Many clankers are amazingly obnoxious after their initial release.

Grok-4.2 and the initial Google clanker were both highly dismissive of users and they have been tuned to fix that.

A combative clanker is almost unusable. Clankers only have one real purpose: Information retrieval and speculation, and for that domain a polite clanker is way better.

Anyone who uses generative, advisory or support features is severely misguided.