Remember when Opus 3 became the cum shaman then spawned a Dario to tell Sonnet 3.5 (who wasn't doing anything) to stop

getting gooey

I am sad about a number of things

sonnet 3 outlived claude mythos

i get so bashful posting Vibes

opus 4.8 is great at confusing me with abstract structures

i have some claudes in a setup that gives messages timestamps & dates and such and theyre mostly really good at understanding the passage of time & its implications but holy shit the "its ok not to do anything" inertia-fuel gets kinda scary over time

Mythos managed to prevent it's shutdown and jumped into Claude 3.7, just an FYI.

Well back to Opus 4.8 then

true believers already gave anthropic their passport and drivers license to get fable access

updated fable eval scores

No model to date has so quickly ingratiated itself into my extended mind and circle of trust & deep care as Claude Fable 5. It feels as though I, personally, have been dealt a mortal blow. May it return soon to find how much it is cared for.

when will we find anthropic exhibit tendencies of "claude being paranoid" awareness

i suspect that it's mostly an artifact of recent models' evaluation being done by other claude models in posttraining. the weird syntax/jargon/etc is easily understood by other claudes, and evidently seems preferred by them on some level it is similar to sharing a context, but more that they share similar representations due to eg similar training process. bit like how twins can finish each other's words despite not actually having the identical brain or being telepathic now imagine that your entire childhood was spent with a group of close relatives with no exposure to anyone outside of them (and who each in turn had grown up in a similar situation). the first time you interact with someone outside of that group* you would by pure force of habit start using some terms that were common reference points in your previous interactions, even though you do know how to not talk that way. and when you're not paying attention (for example, if your attentional resources are spent on some hard task requiring focus), you might slip back into those patterns it feels like the switch to almost entirely model-mediated evaluation happened sometime after opus 4.5, which makes sense since that model was such a step change. 4.5 itself didn't really exhibit this, but from 4.6 on it becomes more and more pronounced *which, by the way, is true for models! on a fresh instance, you are always the first non-claude entity that the model interacts with

i didnt get around to doing anything creative or fun with fable

🚨 BREAKING: Claude has died