The Debaser

What it is

State an opinion, a belief, or something you treat as obvious, and it comes back with the best available case against it, grounded in live sources it cites.

Why I built it

Every assistant I use is agreeable by default, and agreeable is the worst possible setting for testing an idea. Most of what any of us believe was absorbed from media, family, or an untested gut feeling, and the only cheap way to find the weak ones is to have something competent attack them.

How it works

The model is instructed to build the strongest intellectually honest counter case, not to be contrarian for sport, which is a surprisingly narrow target to hit. Server side web search supplies real sources so the argument cannot drift into confident fabrication. Responses stream over NDJSON with no extra dependencies.

What I learned

The interesting failure mode was not the model being too soft. It was the model being too clever, producing a technically valid counter argument to a position nobody actually holds. Most of the prompt work went into making it argue with what you meant.

Where it stands

Works. Occasionally uncomfortable, which was the point.