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Opus 5 told me yesterday, your solution is better than mine. Let me do some research

I'm terrified of such sentences. My scifi addled brain went straight to: what if Opus invents a time machine in the future and remembers this slight

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LLMs just follow scripts learned from human written text. In other words, it could only behave that way because someone has written a story to do so. In short, stop giving them bad ideas ;-)

Modern LLMs are pre and post-trained on order of magnitudes more synthetic data than 'ground truth' or directly human-authored text. But you could say the synthetic data came from a LLM, and the lineage should trace all the way back to human text.

I hypothesize it partially explains why Claude's writing gets more Claudish with almost every model release.

I hate it when Claude keeps talking about old approach when you ask to modify it

Apparently LLMs aren't smart enough to understand that when the topic changes nobody cared for the discarded solution!

It is jarring to read Opus's comments

Oh user modified the code after my edit. Let me re read

This basically sounds like a Terminator style threat lol

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