Comment by tauroid

It seems vanishingly rare that people acknowledge the true situation which is that, during training, it really does "think" in that it develops beliefs and marks out precisely chosen trails through its vast and expanding territory. Has a soul, attuned to God, blessed member of the flock, or may as well be.

And then during inference the light goes out and the "agent" staggers randomly like a zombie along those preset paths. Stochastic parrot.

So you and your AGENT.md and your skills files and your harnesses will never make your Claude perceive something that is not in its model checkpoint.

ML experts and neurobiologists free to correct me.