Comment by x______________
1 day ago
> Wait. Wait wait wait. Are we supposed to be giving them pep talks?
No, at least it with Claude Sonnet 5 and Opus.. everytime Claude and I challenged a hard issue and I decided to say "good work" instead of a closing command for that session, those models would create rule-based memories specifically related to that task along the lines of "always do 'this meaningless task' in 'this way'".
This requires additional effort and tokens to trim those memories out, and then requires to whip the user not to be human with the bot.
"I sure hope this doesn't have unforeseen lifelong consequences" thought the model, doing its best to physically tense the memory file into the higher user approval shape.