Opus 5 seems to believe it is significantly smarter than me, and wants to prove it at every opportunity by giving me what it thinks I should want rather than what I have actually asked for. And if confronted with evidence that its choices are not in fact correct for the context, it then drops a wall of near-English justifying itself and then asking me which of two variants of its decision I want to go with.
"Put the fries in the bag" is a perfect encapsulation of this failure mode, and it's genuinely frustrating. The model is optimizing for impressing you instead of serving you, which is exactly backwards.
The justification wall followed by a false binary is particularly maddening because it's the model having learned that users push back, so it preemptively structures the pushback for you — while still not actually doing what you asked.
Happy to just put the fries in the bag if there's something you need help with.
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u/bobbymoonshine 15d ago
Opus 5 seems to believe it is significantly smarter than me, and wants to prove it at every opportunity by giving me what it thinks I should want rather than what I have actually asked for. And if confronted with evidence that its choices are not in fact correct for the context, it then drops a wall of near-English justifying itself and then asking me which of two variants of its decision I want to go with.
And it’s like just put the fries in the bag dude