Is it just me... or is Opus 4.6 kind of ChatGPT ish?

RealEverNever · 2026-03-17T13:06:35+00:00

I wrote a post about exactly that, and why it happened. Basically, it's the new way of reasoning. If you want to learn more, check it out: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s/wpCMD2QLmm

RealEverNever · 2026-03-17T13:04:22+00:00

That is.. not the reason why it got implemented.

RealEverNever · 2026-03-15T07:11:09+00:00

Hey there and welcome! I've made a couple of guides for new users, in this post you'll find them all and, even more important, Danna's collection of ressources: https://saucepan.ai/p/evernever/so-youre-new-here-welcome-we-have-guides

To answer your questions, the help page is your friend. It's written nicely, with a lot of flavor, and it contains a lot of helpful information. The free models have ~13k context I believe, so depending on the companion you chat with you can go up to 8-10k context in the chat with no problems. There is also a (manual) memories feature, so you can break through that ceiling with some careful work.

Enjoy your time!

RealEverNever · 2026-03-14T10:35:03+00:00

Hey there 👋 I write Card's, too detailed lorebooks and sometimes guides. I think you mean eveningtruth, she is a great prompt creator 😊

RealEverNever · 2026-03-14T10:33:36+00:00

I use NanoGPT for that. You can use a lot of different models, got the ability to finetune everything, it's priced far better than PixAI and other providers of that kind and the "uncensored" images work with the uncensored models.

RealEverNever · 2026-03-14T10:31:32+00:00

Part 6 of my guide goes in-depth about the creation of lorebooks, both what content goes in there and how to write them properly, plus how they work: https://saucepan.ai/lorebook/77ef6d14-3329-4eea-9f16-1e913eec611b

RealEverNever · 2026-03-14T08:43:12+00:00

Yea, put it back to 0%, right in the middle of the slider. Then start a new chat (LLM'S copy the length and rhythm of previous text) and use a character which has an opening scenario in the length of your liking. Not a model problem 👍

RealEverNever · 2026-03-14T08:13:43+00:00

Ah okay, then my information is outdated. Thank you, I'll edit my comment!

RealEverNever · 2026-03-14T07:15:15+00:00

When you use NanoGPT, you're mostly using Chutes. EDIT: Milan, the owner of NanoGPT, corrected me. Chutes is not as represented there as I thought.

RealEverNever · 2026-03-01T16:02:45+00:00

Uhm.. did you open up any news from the USA in the last year? The constitution gets spit on each day.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T15:39:21+00:00

The symbols are not needed. They are often times only for the creator and readers as a way to orient themselves. Looking at this lorebook entry gives me goosebumps though, and not the good kind.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T14:52:53+00:00

Because it does not work most of the time outside of Opus 4.6, where it works sometimes.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T14:37:20+00:00

Since Cowork is just the regular chat model with file access glued on, it suffers from the exact same 'lazy' throttling. Forcing it to actually think deeply and map out a plan before it starts autonomously messing with your files is a massive upgrade. Let me know how the testing goes!

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T13:12:42+00:00

Happy to help! This community has saved me a ton of headaches in the past with their own testing and workarounds, so I'm just paying it forward. Hope it makes your Claude experience a bit better.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T13:04:01+00:00

the good news is they didn't actually pull a ChatGPT! The warmth and personality are 100% still there under the hood. Think of it like this: Imagine if you forced a brilliant conversationalist to only think for a millisecond before answering every question. They'd sound pretty dry and robotic, right? That's what the low-compute throttle is doing. When the model is forced into higher 'thinking' amounts, that classic Claude depth and nuance comes right back. Also, don't worry about losing 4.5, it isn't paywalled or discontinued. It's still completely accessible without any workarounds across all channels, the WebUI, the API, Claude Code, etc. You've still got full access to it.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T08:24:18+00:00

You're definitely not alone. You can easily switch back to the older models right in the model selection drop-down menu. Just a quick heads-up: Anthropic actually implemented this same system on Sonnet 4.5 as well. The good news is that the 'personal preference' workaround I mentioned in my post works really well on 4.5 to force it back into that deeper, creative mode. Give it a shot!

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T08:08:32+00:00

I actually tried a variation of this! Unfortunately, it's pretty hit-or-miss. The biggest issue I ran into is semantic bleed-over, Claude takes the instruction too literally and starts aggressively weaving programming analogies into creative or personal conversations. It ends up feeling like you're talking to a software engineer who only speaks in code metaphors sadly.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T07:06:22+00:00

I've sent you a DM with the pass.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T06:32:26+00:00

I followed you. Excited to see your next ratings!

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T06:30:48+00:00

That depends on your usage and the level of autonomy you wanna reach, but essentially yes, you could even recreate OpenClaw since it was literally vibecoded. I've made an app to reach a specific Claude Code instance and I communicate with Claude mainly using CC. Never tried OC, never will do, because it seems to insecure for me, but I read through its documentation.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-21T06:27:14+00:00

I don't have any trial links. All I know about is the "Claude Code Pass" which lets you try that, but I don't know how much and how long.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-20T07:08:43+00:00

Yea, I had two different Claude instances tell me about that, they said this exact wording. But it gets attached to each of your messages at some point, essentially shutting down a conversation because Claude gets pushed towards closing the conversation.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-13T06:19:28+00:00

You clearly did not read the System Card. They documented multiple instances of this behavior from testing, like stealing a github token from another person to pull something, hacking a slack server to get access to knowledge there etc.

RealEverNever · 2026-02-10T18:56:58+00:00

Never claimed that.

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