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1. hungryhobbit · 1790193542 · focus · HN ↗

   How about you make Opus 5.5 actually work?

   I had it try to prepare a code review for me. Not only did it refuse, it refused to even tell me what the prompt (written by another Claude!) was. Why?

   When I had another model read the session (all of the "stupider" models handled it just fine) it explained that it had the word "reasoning" in it

   That's the entirety of Anthropic's billions of dollars of research: any prompt with the word "reasoning" is trying to hack Claude to figure out how it reasons!

   A model like that should never have gotten out of QA, let alone been released.

   1. frumplestlatz · 1790194761 · focus · HN ↗

      I’ve had the same thing occur five or six times over the past week; they seem to be attempting to prevent anything resembling chain of thought extraction.

      Every single time it triggered, it was due to a prompt written by their own model in a dynamic workflow. The self-serving nanny oversight has to go.

      The fact that they label model distillation as an “attack” is genuinely hilarious after they “distilled“ their models from all of our work, and continue to do so.

      I believe AI is here to stay and an incredibly powerful tool, but these companies, and especially Dario and Altman, are the very last people I want to see in charge of it.

      1. copperx · 1790195485 · focus · HN ↗

         > “distilled“ their models from all of our work

         They distilled all digitized human knowledge and artifacts and they're now complaining about someone copying their outputs saying it's a "national security concern."

         I'm not sure about how to classify that. Hilarious? Pathetic? Sad? Hypocritical? Hyperdramatic? All of the above?

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