Comment by cbg0
5 hours ago
Trying to appeal to the LLM is pointless, everyone would just claim that they're working on their own code.
I've found that if you're seeing refusals and you have a more permissive model available, you can use that to find the issues and pass them back to Claude for review and implementation.
> Trying to appeal to the LLM is pointless
Not always. Recently Claude refused to run a task that involved queries on a database with PII. I told it (truthfully) that the job was for our lawyers and the PII is redacted in the final report, and then it complied.
It force-switched me to Opus 4.8, which has run through now.
You gave me good idea to let 4.8 write a hand-off and then let 5.5 try implementing it.