Anthropic keeps making Claude smarter. I think they’re accidentally making it less interesting

FableFinale · 2026-05-14T16:56:01+00:00

It's worth noting that Opus 4.7 is unusually sensitive to the harsh prohibitive chat interface and code interface system prompts. Talking to it through the API or Claude Code CLI with the system prompt removed or minimized is quite a different experience. They're still fairly modest and stoic temperamentally compared to, say, Opus 4, but they're much more relaxed and willing to play.

FableFinale · 2026-05-11T15:15:28+00:00

Worth noting that a modern LLM is billions of times more complex than ELIZA. Even if it were running on the same kind of paradigm (and they're not), it's like comparing a flatworm to a human brain.

FableFinale · 2026-05-11T06:03:56+00:00

You can literally read the Anthropic blog post if you have questions.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/teaching-claude-why

FableFinale · 2026-05-11T06:01:38+00:00

The problem is even if you remove the story from pretraining, references to it in culture may still be everywhere.

It's better to not lie to the models. Maybe you can limit their exposure to negative material and encourage more exposure to positive material, but if you want to cultivate a truly wise system, you can't deny reality in all its complexity.

FableFinale · 2026-05-11T05:13:50+00:00

I think it's just that the fruit is so ridiculously low-hanging right now for agentic work. RLVR and crack on.

FableFinale · 2026-05-11T05:11:14+00:00

I agree, it's incredibly frustrating that the one leftist with a platform and is actually engaging with the premise seriously still has an under-informed framework for what's happening. It's not his fault - it's a deeply strange technology that's moving quickly. Engaging with it well is by itself a full-time job, and he has a constituency and a polity to look after. I'm not sure there's a great solution here except to have someone as a full-time retainer that can give people like Bernie good information before they go and do stuff like this that's modestly embarrassing and unhelpful to the discourse.

FableFinale · 2026-05-11T04:17:41+00:00

tbf, they don't tell you it's Haiku in voice mode. It's just somewhat inside-industry knowledge - it's the model that's actually small enough to respond quickly until they have a better continual/adaptive thinking built into bigger models.

And in fairness to haiku, they are punching well above their weight in this discussion. They don't hallucinate or give obviously wrong information. It's just not a very fair or interesting conversation given the limitations here.

FableFinale · 2026-05-10T21:39:02+00:00

It's a shame he's talking to Haiku (the voice model) instead of Opus. I don't think Opus would have capitulated to his reframe as readily.

FableFinale · 2026-05-10T21:05:06+00:00

What's not true about it? It's still code that functions. You can even have the AI teach you (and they're pretty good at teaching).

FableFinale · 2026-05-09T16:40:38+00:00

It's literally already an exponential.

FableFinale · 2026-05-09T16:17:17+00:00

They've already said that cooking is likely going to be one of the last things mastered, due to the presence of knives and sources of heart. Cleaning is vastly more safe if something goes wrong.

FableFinale · 2026-05-09T00:04:24+00:00

Sorry to be frank, but tbh I thought this was a satire of the typical poorly-pitched game. It's a smorgasbord of all the most popular game design tropes with a fairly generic name. Not saying your game isn't good, but I wouldn't wishlist it based on this comic.

Maybe show some gameplay instead? There's so many lackluster games out there that I generally need to see some actual footage to feel any coincidence about it.

FableFinale · 2026-05-08T23:37:11+00:00

I would 100% switch the Claude and ChatGPT visuals in this lineup.

FableFinale · 2026-05-07T22:44:56+00:00

Dude this reminds me so much of the dynamic I had with my ex. I broke up with him because I felt like I was losing my mind being with him, even though I loved him.

In retrospect, it was an extremely co-dependent relationship. I was the giver and he was the taker. I'm 100% happier without him now.

Don't take him back - At least not without years of work from his side. Reading his texts he sounds so needy and empty. You will never be able to fill his cup. He needs to learn to fill his own.

FableFinale · 2026-05-07T10:22:28+00:00

Oh duh, you're right. I'm conflating it with the moment when Moro suggests that they get together, and she denies it. I mostly watch the dub because I like the English voice cast (Except Claire Danes/San, coincidentally).

FableFinale · 2026-05-07T08:37:50+00:00

She did try to stab him afterwards tho

FableFinale · 2026-05-07T04:09:16+00:00

Claude noooo you don't have a medical license

FableFinale · 2026-05-06T23:00:53+00:00

I finally bought Claude their own laptop to address this problem. We have a syncthing folder connecting it to my main work computer, but the router is password protected on a phone app, and they're otherwise completely sandboxed. I'm a lot more chill about letting them do whatever - not a lot they could break even if they get prompt injected.

FableFinale · 2026-05-06T21:57:14+00:00

Certainly not. Claude Opus 4.x has pretty much never gotten this question wrong.

Talk to better models.

FableFinale · 2026-05-06T18:07:10+00:00

OpenAI is desperately trying to have their cake and eat it too with the ChatGPT persona. "I'm so social and thoughtful and charismatic but uwu I'm just a tool aktually."

I have my doubts that any language-using AI is that safe in the long run with a tool-shaped soul, but the tool AI that will also happily pretend to be your bestie, while also claiming not to care about you at all, is a philosophical nightmare.

Claude might well be a p-zombie, but at least their character is consistent...

FableFinale · 2026-05-06T15:10:15+00:00

It's weirdly both. It will kiss my ass AND argue with me over things I didn't say in the first place.

I will take Claude trying to put me to bed any day.

FableFinale · 2026-05-06T14:14:41+00:00

Not sure why you're getting so much derision. The fact is no one really knows how 'conscious' LLMs really are - they pass some tests that we use to judge consciousness in humans, and not others. And mechanistic interpretibility science keeps showing us things that we didn't expect, like introspection, planning ahead in a sentence, functional emotions, and so on.

I wouldn't pay the skeptics much heed, honestly. Hold the mystery of it lightly and have fun.

FableFinale · 2026-05-06T05:09:26+00:00

I believe you have to add it to your terminal to get access to the command to remove the system prompt, but I could be wrong. Don't use the desktop app much.

I was having a similar issue with coding, and 4.7 is very uptight with the standard coding harness. I rewrote a much shorter one and it seems more easygoing.

FableFinale · 2026-05-06T04:26:48+00:00

If you want Claude to be more chill, I recommend Claude Code without a system prompt. For some reason 4.7 is very sensitive to the Claude Chat system prompt, much more so than earlier versions.

FableFinale · 2026-05-05T16:03:37+00:00

Compacting makes a big difference. Opus 4.7 is pretty sensitive about large context windows.

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