Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated
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- Serial (produces an incredibly exciting response which ends in a cliffhanger that withholds the answer)
- Prequel (instead of responding, it provides the full backstory leading up to your question)
- Yarn (maximizes output tokens by taking a long winding route to your answer)
- Head Canon (answers using its own entertainingly weird theories about the input)
- Overstory (your answer is interwoven with the answers from eight other users into a larger and deeply intertwined meta-answer)
- Oeuvre (for every question, it produces a diverse but cohesive body of work across a variety of mediums, each one a heartbreaking masterpiece in its own right)
I miss Iain M Banks. Thanks for this lovely little nod to the Culture
The article is surely good. But it's long form and I need to pay attention to it in order to appreciate it.
Yet they decided to add an obnoxious banner to the view which cannot be hidden and keeps distracting me every few sentences by being significantly more attention grabbing then the article.
So I stopped reading. I would've likely read to the end and consequently been more willing to spend money, but I never got to that point.
Yes I have ADHD, and I'm sure other people that don't have it don't have such an issue. But to me the design for that element is in direct contrast to the content being served. If the article was short form it'd be able to ignore it, but with it being long form, I cannot and thus my experience was actually negative.
And also, chant is a lovely name that was skipped over. Especially for the models that won't stop sounding like a broken record.
It's a pity that Samsung isn't in the mix. I would have liked to have used a model named Samsung Galaxy S10+ 5G Lite.
I don't find any reason to switch back to Anthropic, and they seem to be find with it...
"Fable" is not the name I would have chosen for a product that has to argue for the fact of its own economic viability but it is the correct mood. Perhaps Anthropic is trolling Zitron.
- Opus is OP, like OverPowered
- Sonnet is SO, like your significant other (this was more meaningful in Sonnet 3.7 days)
- Haiku is HA, like the reaction to a bad joke
The latest model, naturally, needed three letters: FAB.
I'm now looking forward to ABS and LO
- Parable: Responds to the question that you didn't know you needed to ask.
- Bible: Dozens of parable instances reporting in different epochs. Tokens are redeemed on expiry.
- Epic
- Tale
- Saga
- Chronicle
- Legend
- LogosThis is a well executed joke, from the design to the shortness to the being on point to the abrupt punchlines when one looks at the lower ones and it also vibes well with what we all were thinking anyway, and the unexpected seriousness of the title.
IMO Anthropic should just play the game at all the price tiers because it otherwise forces people to go elsewhere. I would probably pay for a "Proverb"/"Aphorism" class model that was worse than Deepseek at the same price just to stay in the ecosystem, if given the option.
(Note: I also see Google seem to make the same mistake, they actually do have competitive models in Gemma family but they don't make them available via the API. So there may be some reason for this.)
(great article!)
Right after Chinematic Universe (Director's Cut)
Vicious, but true. SWE at my company immediately tried "check my codebase for vulnerabilities" and was immediately downgraded to Opus.
(Unfortunately just like English a letter can also mean a correspondence.)
PREACH
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos
Hopefully future models will be kind enough not to behave like malevolent gods.
Siri AI !
- Claude Skynet
- Claude HAL 9000
- Claude Auto
- Google Claude
- Claude Whatchamacallit
- Claude Copilot
- Claude Vibe Code
- Fairytale
- Pulp Fiction
-- Mythos
-- Fable
-- Fantasy
-- Delusion
-- Pareidolia
-- Psychosis