Gemini still calls me "the architect" in half of the prompts. It's very cringe.

Can't say I've ever seen this in my own chats. Maybe it's something about your writing style?

It’s very different to get a “vibe check” for a model than to get an actual robust idea of how it works and what it can or can’t do.

This exact thing is why people strongly claimed that GPT-5 Thinking was strictly worse than o3 on release, only for people to change their minds later when they’ve had more time to use it and learn its strengths and weaknesses. It takes time for people to really get to grips with a new model, not just a few prompt comparisons where luck and prompt selection will play a big role.

I get that one can perhaps have an intuition about these things, but doesn't this seem like a somewhat flawed attitude to have all things considered? That is, saying something to the effect of "well I know its not too sycophantic, no measurement needed, I have some special prompts of my own and it passed with flying colors!" just sounds a little suspect on first pass, even if its not like totally unbelievable I guess.