Comment by ninjalanternshk

9 hours ago

> Worth stating because four documents now assert

I got one too many chunks of this nonsense and told Claude to knock it off, forever. It acknowledged and wrote out some instructions to its memory about it.

And what a breath of fresh air. Its responses are maybe 20% longer but I read them at least twice as fast. Should have done it a long time ago.

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gambiting  1 hour ago

I feel like mine is mocking me. I added an instruction in Claude.md that says "under no circumstances use the phrase found the smoking gun, say I found the problem instead"

What does it do? It says "found the smoking gun! Ooops I wasn't meant to say that - I found the problem!"

  • qlte  14 minutes ago

    It's pretty wild how "reasoning" models now generate like 10 thousand hidden chain of thought tokens in response to a "increase opacity of the logo by 20%" prompt before writing the actual message and yet they still manage to do this.

    Reminds me of how I asked Gemini (paid plan) to translate some labels on a chart from Russian to English the other day, and it spat out the image, then did a "wait, several labels are still Russian somehow", spat out another image with the same issue, then a paragraph of babble about how desperately it wanted to do fix the issue to complete the task correctly, spat out the same image a third time and was like "welp I may be brain damaged... sorry, user :("

    It was hard to tell if the parser was leaking reasoning since Gemini does that occasionally with nested tags and stuff but either way seeing the load-bearing psychosis in its normal generative loop was somewhat unnerving. Helps understand why the big labs are so intent on hiding it from the user.

niccl  9 hours ago

any specifics on what you did?

  • tkgally  8 hours ago

    Not the person you're asking, but I did that by explaining to Fable my problem with Opus's gobbledygook and having it write a Claude skill for producing clear explanations in its reports to me. I also had it add notes about the need for clearer writing to CLAUDE.md and other project documentation. Opus's subsequent reports to me have been much clearer.