Opus 4.8 has made huge jumps in being less sycophantic. I see it pushing back on ideas a lot, and that's very helpful when you're evaluating options.

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lachlan_gray 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Almost too much so, it often feels like opus is pushing back for the sake of pushing back. The way old models used to add disclaimers to every message regardless of content

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NewJazz 4 hours ago | parent [-]

That's because it can't literally reason, it has just been manually steered into those reasoning speech cycles.

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emodendroket 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, yes. Does everyone still find it interesting to go over this point every time about how it's not literally a person with human reasoning?

	▲	NewJazz an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Uh, only when people don't seem to understand it, or try to personify it. Which is quite often.