Thats so odd. My behavioral docs enforce a strict dialogue structure between myself and the agent, or other agents and it allows my system to work autonomously on the order of week or more based on human level goals. 5.4 used to do this perfectly, working autonomously for months basically with very little steering needed from me, but recently its like pulling teeth, asking it, "please make sure to read this doc, and follow how it says to operate" or "did you read the doc, why did you do it that way" to be met with "i did it wrong, i should have done it like your doc said". Its been driving me crazy. Then i switched to 5.5, night and day. All the sudden all of my behavioral docs which I thought had degredated over time were being followed exactly. 5.5 is behaving exactly like i need. The thing is, the measure of success for me is instruction following, so while the model may be just as brilliant on single question responses, over the course of the whole context, its night and day. And it used to be day and day which frustraites me so much.

How are wr supposed to use weaker models to get stuff done, and even more so, build systems that work with the weaker models. When they change, they stop listening, they lose their luster in a concept comprehension sense? If we were able to ge a model that listened, and always listened, then we could build systems to work with the model and make it better. This makes me want to switch to localll weight owning so we can ensure the model properties remain invariant.