More and more I find myself trying to stop Opus from doing something stupid, and at every turn I need to tell it to stop overcomplicating things.

I think the models are being optimized for wealth extraction from users and companies, instead of solving problems.

I don't know why Opus would try to create an entire library when I told it specifically to do something simple that would take 2-3 lines of Python.

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__natty__ 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> More and more I find myself trying to stop Opus from doing something stupid, and at every turn I need to tell it to stop overcomplicating things

Yeah, that’s my thoughts as well. I feel it’s great for benchmarks and some tasks while in other it tries to spend as much tokens as possible, tries to overcomplicate task and needs seconds or third round of steering that costs. With the scale Anthropic operates I bet it’s huge amount of extra money just to make sure their model works.

	▲	Aeolun 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It’s really weird when you go to one of the open models and suddenly the same context window stretches nearly 3-4 times as long.

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indoordin0saur 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah. Mine really likes to read excess code. I'll ask it questions like "If I move all these three ETL jobs into a subfolder will it break anything?" It'll start with giving me the simple answer but then continue on to consider another question and realize it requires reading my entire other repo that handles all of my cloud's infrastructure. And it'll proceed to read through tens of thousands of lines of terraform.

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post-it 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> I don't know why Opus would try to create an entire library when I told it specifically to do something simple that would take 2-3 lines of Python.

Because it reasons in one direction. First it encounters some kind of issue with 2-3 lines of Python that might make it not work, and then it goes onto plan B, which is making a library, but it doesn't circle back and compare the effort of making the library to working around whatever might make the 2-3 lines not work. Except sometimes it does, because it's inscrutable.

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MagicMoonlight 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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3ffs 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There were many of us who predicted and saw this months ago.

Should I refer to those who are only realising this now as stupid? I believe so.

Its not wealth extraction btw - the correct economic term is capturing/extracting surplus. They have a wide range of schemes - quality discrimination being one very obvious one.

Swear most of you on here pretend to be soooo smart when you def are not.