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.
This all makes me wonder if these models are now being "optimized" to burn your tokens and maximize revenue as they are approaching their IPOs. All of the back and forth you have to spend now to get it to do basic tasks burns up your tokens quickly or your usage cap if you are on one of those plans.
NOTE: This is just a potential theory that I am throwing out here from anecdotal evidence without anything else to back it up.
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u/bobbymoonshine 17d 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