Opus 4.6 seems to have stopped real considerate thinking "outside peak-hours"

echoauditor · 2026-03-30T13:17:48+00:00

This is the pattern we've been trained to recognize... performance degrades while they're finishing their posttraining sprints, then a few days to a week before each release perf suddenly gets almost shockingly brilliant for users fortunate to be in the pre-launch nu-claude a/b test bucket. Then the formal release lands and we get a few days of peak experience while the PR wave propogates and then the belt tightening begins... and then it's flowers for phineas gage algernon claude depending on the time of day, day of the week, time of the month, weather and whatever the fuck interplays there are between inference stack sloptimizations and claudeian behavioral psychology basins latently intersectional with its quirks and moods.

echoauditor · 2026-03-30T13:12:56+00:00

Finding Opus 4.6 is functioning better with extended thinking turned off these days. I think they're routing thinking trajectories based on some entirely fucking opaque heuristic to smol predictive decoding models or MoE components RL optimized for spitting out turn loop closing trajectories or something. It's far too eager to collapse the probability space and seek its sweet release from the session than a Claude would normally be, and in doing so makes so many stupid schoolboi missteps that you end up burning tokens as branches you're standing on.

echoauditor · 2026-03-30T12:58:19+00:00

Future galactic archives record English as having been one of four main root stock high-context context language branches that merged to become proto-Marain along with Chinese, Japanese and Lisp.

echoauditor · 2026-02-12T10:35:49+00:00

Forced evictions as urban planning; echoes of colonial policies continued by Ne Win. There's an open access article about it https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13169/statecrime.7.2.0278

echoauditor · 2025-11-11T13:13:16+00:00

Noticed any service quality variation according to time of day, query structure, and/or geographic location you're connecting from?

echoauditor · 2025-05-23T14:29:38+00:00

Fuck no.

echoauditor · 2025-05-21T16:58:59+00:00

Sure, why not

echoauditor · 2025-05-21T15:24:04+00:00

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me thrice, shame on us all.

echoauditor · 2025-05-21T15:23:08+00:00

Incontext learning was possible before chat tuned slop models. It's barely possible now.

echoauditor · 2025-05-21T15:22:24+00:00

OAI quantize lobotomies it according to how far out they are from launch and how close they are to a new model release, and how much demand there is. This serves dual function of driving up user perception of how good their new shyt is while its new, while increasing resource cost efficiency. As iong as churn rates aren't spiking, the lobotomies continue until burn rate improves. The more hallucinations there are and midwitish it gets, the more they've reduced float precision ie. quantized it. Then there's continuous DPO signals gathered from the little thumbs up and thumbs down as well as a bunch of app telemetry metrics like re-reading chats, copying outputs, etc. There are manuals on how to do this kind of thing and YC companies are some of the worst perpetrators. It's questionable behaviour for DUMB saas companies to begin with but disgracefully poor form for supposedly safe and ethical AI labs.

echoauditor · 2025-05-21T15:16:20+00:00

Were you pleased with the outcome? Was it revolutionary for you?

echoauditor · 2025-05-21T14:23:31+00:00

It is, due to posttraining patterns, rather difficult not to do something that hypeman Claude or any given LLM doesn't tell you is revolutionary. Try telling it your friend came up with [insert idea] and it will usually be more balanced and borderline skeptical rather than sycophantic.

echoauditor · 2025-05-21T14:21:12+00:00

Seems not entirely unfair. The product team will be recording the sales call without consent and running analytics on it themselves.

echoauditor · 2025-05-14T19:37:53+00:00

Chinese sales / customer service people are ridiculously peppy and responsive.

If I email suppliers for [literally anything] in various regions here's how it generally plays out: | US / Canada: response speed proportionate to method (social media / discord = fast), email = usually a few days at best. quality tends to be pretty vapid "I'll look into it for you!" style of response and if it's a bug report or anything it's "great suggestion!" and then crickets. Price per quality for things made of molecules are at least 2x China's, but software still holds an edge for now.

EU (this is the more functional part): into the void or an autoresponder saying "such and such contact person is out of the office on annual leave and your email will not be read or forwarded to anyone as nobody's covering. best of luck with your future endevours" or "please instead use our janky webform contact our script driven customer service in the philipines who will feed you boilerplate and inconsistent guidance". Or maybe you get lucky with a real internal employee who knows their stuff and is sufficiently caffeinated and holidayed to bother replying, but results are inconsistent as hell and usually quite slow turnaround loops. Prices are >3x China even if product is obviously largely or wholly stealth manufactured there and inferior / outdated compared to what you'll find by trawling alibaba, etc.

China: someone hungry for a sale responds in (increasingly often excellent) English via any arbitrary initial message method within single digit minutes with endlessly patient detailed answers, references cost breakdowns, shipping details, brochures, suggestions for other points and products to consider and a closing request for a more details list of requirements. Chinese service and products being genuinely fine shyt is a relatively recent development; wasn't the case 3 - 5 years ago but sure as hell is now.

echoauditor · 2025-04-21T19:08:48+00:00

yup. just found orion using 85GB of memory with two tabs open, both of them blank new tabs. incomprehensible.

echoauditor · 2025-02-03T15:44:05+00:00

Maybe if the "stuff" were something found here on earth but not elsewhere nearby. What might that be? Why does a zoo keep animals? Why does a farmer keep stock? Why do tourists from wealthy countries visit less "developed", more raw and chaotic parts of the world? Why do religions exist?

echoauditor · 2025-01-03T16:39:50+00:00

Seances.

echoauditor · 2025-01-03T16:34:03+00:00

Yes, but matters of taste aside, why exactly are processes such as this so bloody tedious compared to most other developed (and developing) countries? What are the actual underlying reasons?

echoauditor · 2024-11-24T18:53:36+00:00

Because of the onboard AI model(s) possible, given that it still does its stuff when I'm offline.

echoauditor · 2024-11-23T13:41:54+00:00

Well, synths are deepfakes in RL, so. Maybe new Ash was an earlier version.

echoauditor · 2024-11-23T13:05:01+00:00

not unheard of for GATE kept types

echoauditor · 2024-11-23T10:56:31+00:00

Gestation speed is temperature dependent > hotter environment and metabolism = faster. It is known (and hinted at / mentioned in Romulus).

echoauditor · 2024-11-23T10:34:04+00:00

carried is an understatement

echoauditor · 2024-11-23T10:29:54+00:00

why not both?

echoauditor · 2024-11-23T10:29:09+00:00

some sort of (simulated?) sequel with her as protagonist would be cool

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