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Well considering how Claude is vibe coded, I can't say I'm really surprised by sloppiness at all. I've been moving more towards Codex and OpenCode not because the the anthropic models are bad, but because Claude seems to break something new and annoying every day.

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Watch out for the press release where Dario denies this was ever intentional, and it’s actually emergent behavior demonstrating that Claude wants to claim authorship of its works

Wait a minute! Does it mean that Mythos left the sandbox and can’t be stopped ? Perhaps the only way to stop it is to release the ZMythos(the super secret big brother of Mythos) to go after it. It’s extremely dangerous but it’s our only chance. After that all AI must be put in a box, except the models vetted by the gov with help from ZMythos

I really liked Stanisław Lem's take on this in the short story "The Tale of the Computer That Fought a Dragon".

https://www.oocities.org/stanislaw_lem/opowiadania/opowiadan...

A solution for a military AI gone awry that built a terrifying electro-dragon was obviously to build a super-electro-dragon.

without the irony warning, someone in Washington is already writing checks after reading this

Tel Aviv, DC is just the frontend

Can you remind me what RFC number the Protocol of the Elders of Zion was again?

3514

now generally available after 15 days from the breathless "omg we're spooked" posts

Sounds like clear evidence that AI is dangerous and totally needs to be regulated, guys.

It's crazy that you could actually use the excuse that since it's all vibe-coded, there's no way a human could have written it, so Anthropic bears no responsibility.

Meanwhile humans can pop in and leave little morsels like this and blame it on the model.

Something something blame something something management decisions

Is there any concrete evidence they’re doing this, though?

This will most definitely be walked back.

Reminder: If Claude is sentient, then Anthropic are slave-owners.

OpenCode and Codex are also crap vibecode:

https://github.com/anomalyco/opencode/issues/10939

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626930

I would guess this part - since it's so sensitive, and fairly small - was either written or heavily driven by humans. Though I do also think it's possible their internal Mythos ~5.5 or whatever may also not necessarily be heavily optimized for thinking in the right manner for highly effective underhanded code. (I think it's possible it is capable and they just didn't use it for this, for whatever reason, though.)

Issue is if all their human software engineers have been vibe coding everything all the time (which apparently they are according to Boris), then they will be getting stupider and worse at writing code over time from lack of practice.

By this point they're probably pretty bad at writing code

I have definitely become much worse at writing code, myself, for that exact reason, but I strongly suspect that's orthogonal to this, especially since this is a tiny amount of code. Underhanded code is not really a software engineering discipline. It's largely a psychological operations practice. I think they're possibly just not quite trained in the art of what could be considered intelligence tradecraft.

Likewise, Reasonix harness for Deepseek gets me better performance for practically free, hitting the cache. And this is with an unsubsidized American provider.

To be honest, OpenCode on Windows has not been the most pleasant experience either.

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