Writing · roleplay

To train managers you need a virtual client who resists and says no. An off-the-shelf LLM fails hardest exactly here – RLHF made it agreeable. I unpack how an uncooperative interlocutor is assembled out of a friendly assistant: role layers, different temperatures for the client and the validator, a ban on cheap excuses, the director's note 'you don't know this' – and why the client's reply gets no quality judge, only a check for whether the conversation is over.