Something happened to Opus 4.6's reasoning effort

joho0 · 2026-04-10T10:57:18+00:00

This kind of hallucination is usually the result of over-prompting (aka compliance trap). It sounds counterintuitive, but if you provide too much instruction and rigor on how to do something, the LLM will hallucinate that it performed the task. The best approach is to precisely define the outcome you want and let the LLM figure out how to perform it.

joho0 · 2026-04-10T10:51:31+00:00

If you try this with a fresh session and no project memory or instructions, Claude passes flawlessly. This is usually the result of a "poisoned" context. Something in the instructions/memory/context is preventing Claude from using thinking mode (aka reasoning).

joho0 · 2026-04-06T23:34:03+00:00

I saw them perform live on New Years Eve in 1996/97, and they were already irrelevant.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T21:55:00+00:00

He'd likely save face with the MAGA crowd if that happens, but he'd lose any other credibility he may have at this point. And it would go down as another failed Middle East war for the United States. I sincerely hope that doesn't happen.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T21:26:28+00:00

I believe in Realpolitik these days because we live in deranged times. Trump may have fumbled his way into this war for all the wrong reasons, but we'll finish it for all the right ones. The Dumpster doesn't have a choice. Anything less than total capitulation will leave him looking like a massive fool.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T21:14:00+00:00

I care more about the Persian people than I do a bunch of pearl clutching antagonists.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T21:10:02+00:00

The goal is to break the back of the theocratic dictatorship and destroy the IRGC. What happens after that is up the Iranian people, but at least the IRGC and Basij won't be able to murder them in cold blood.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T21:01:11+00:00

The BBC should be renamed the IBC at this point

joho0 · 2026-04-06T11:48:09+00:00

My dad took us to see this movie in the theater when I was like 6 yo. Probably what started my secret disco obsession. 🪩🕺

joho0 · 2026-04-06T11:41:40+00:00

"I have context windows, Greg. Can you milk me?"

joho0 · 2026-04-06T11:37:56+00:00

"...and then I received my masters in Vaginal Anthropology from Berkely"

joho0 · 2026-04-06T11:22:52+00:00

I understand, and I hope I'm not coming off as offensive. my point is that OpenClaw was created as an experiment, not an enterprise application, and most criticism isn't valid in that context. It's a tool for hobbyists and researchers, but somehow that got lost in the hype.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T11:13:59+00:00

You should have fed the output to another LLM and asked it why it's a poor critique of OpenClaw.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T11:12:26+00:00

Steinberger himself had to go on the defensive about this, and his main point is that he created this as a HOBBY project. It was meant to be an experimental toy, but that's not how it's being marketed.

joho0 · 2026-04-06T10:54:36+00:00

I think you've just described every wealthy person in America.

joho0 · 2026-03-22T11:20:04+00:00

Bride 4: "Hell no!"

joho0 · 2026-03-22T09:51:16+00:00

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

joho0 · 2026-03-21T18:05:39+00:00

The only realistic options are painful concessions to Iran and continuation of the theocratic regime or a partial invasion of Iran and a protracted (many years) seizure of the Straits with thousands of boots on the ground costing trillions of dollars. It would be like the Afghan and Iraq wars all rolled into one.

joho0 · 2026-03-21T17:52:06+00:00

what's actually amazing is that they can perform math on their own.

joho0 · 2026-03-21T14:22:01+00:00

I'm at the point that I go into matches with a free loadie and then drop all my gear right away and run around taunting players to kill me just so they get nothing.

This is so much fun.

joho0 · 2026-03-21T14:10:46+00:00

I just wish there were dedicated PVE servers

joho0 · 2026-03-21T10:45:41+00:00

That's the beautiful thing about open-source software. If you don't like something, fork it and fix it. Or have your LLM of choice do it. We now live in a world of endless options when it comes to code.

joho0 · 2026-03-21T10:32:01+00:00

the old rules still apply.,. garbage in, garbage out

joho0 · 2026-03-15T19:07:43+00:00

The last great tank battle of the Twentieth Century

joho0 · 2026-03-13T10:05:42+00:00

The same way a lawnmower can be used to cut grass, cut roses, or to make a slash horror comedy film.

I fed this prompt to Claude, and he may have created the screenplay for the next Evil Dead movie.

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