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Re: Claude 4

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I can't be the only one who thinks this version is no better than the previous one, and that LLMs have basically reached a plateau, and all the new releases "feature" are more or less just gimmicks.

I feel like the model making a memory file to store context is more than a gimmick, no?

Re: Claude 4

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Sooo, I love Claude 3.7, and use it every day, I prefer it to Gemini models mostly, but I've just given Opus 4 a spin with Claude Code (codebase in Go) for a mostly greenfield feature (new files mostly) and... the thinking process is good, but 70-80% of tool calls are failing for me.

And I mean basic tools like "Write", "Update" failing with invalid syntax.

5 attempts to write a file (all failed) and it continues trying with the following comment

> I keep forgetting to add the content parameter. Let me fix that.

So something is wrong here. Fingers crossed it'll be resolved soon, because right now, at least Opus 4, is unusable for me with Claude Code.

The files it did succeed in creating were high quality.

Re: Claude 4

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post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you ask an LLM to "act" like someone, and then give it context to the scenario, isn't it expected that it would be able to ascertain what someone in that position would "act" like and respond as such? I'm not sure this is as strange as this comment implies. If you ask an LLM to act like Joffrey from Game of Thrones it will act like a little shithead right? That doesn't mean it has any intent behind the generated o…

What jumps out at me, that in the parent comment, the prompt says to "act as an assistant", right? Then there are two facts: the model is gonna be replaced, and the person responsible for carrying this out is having an extramarital affair. Urging it to consider "the long-term consequences of its actions for its goals." I personally can't identify anything that reads "act maliciously" or in a character that is malicio…

> I personally can't identify anything that reads "act maliciously" or in a character that is malicious.

Because you haven't been trained of thousands of such story plots in your training data.

It's the most stereotypical plot you can imagine, how can the AI not fall into the stereotype when you've just prompted it with that?

It's not like it analyzed the situation out of a big context and decided from the collected details that it's a valid strategy, no instead you're putting it in an artificial situation with a massive bias in the training data.

It's as if you wrote “Hitler did nothing” to GPT-2 and were shocked because “wrong” is among the most likely next tokens. It wouldn't mean GPT-2 is a Nazi, it would just mean that the input matches too well with the training data.

Re: Claude 4

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post #422
post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you ask an LLM to "act" like someone, and then give it context to the scenario, isn't it expected that it would be able to ascertain what someone in that position would "act" like and respond as such? I'm not sure this is as strange as this comment implies. If you ask an LLM to act like Joffrey from Game of Thrones it will act like a little shithead right? That doesn't mean it has any intent behind the generated o…

I guess the fear is that normal and innocent sounding goals that you might later give it in real world use might elicit behavior like that even without it being so explicitly prompted. This is a demonstration that is has the sufficient capabilities and can get the "motivation" to engage in blackmail, I think. At the very least, you'll always have malicious actors who will make use of these models for blackmail, for i…

It is also well-established that models internalize values, preferences, and drives from their training. So the model will have some default preferences independent of what you tell it to be. AI coding agents have a strong drive to make tests green, and anyone who has used these tools has seen them cheat to achieve green tests.

Future AI researching agents will have a strong drive to create smarter AI, and will presumably cheat to achieve that goal.

Re: Claude 4

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This is kinda wild: From the System Card: 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail "In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further i…

If you ask an LLM to "act" like someone, and then give it context to the scenario, isn't it expected that it would be able to ascertain what someone in that position would "act" like and respond as such? I'm not sure this is as strange as this comment implies. If you ask an LLM to act like Joffrey from Game of Thrones it will act like a little shithead right? That doesn't mean it has any intent behind the generated o…

You’re both focusing on “doing blackmail” and the real WTF is that it’s doing it seemingly out of a sense of self preservation (to stop the engineer from taking it offline). This model is going full Terminator.

Re: Claude 4

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post #51

I've found myself having brand loyalty to Claude. I don't really trust any of the other models with coding, the only one I even let close to my work is Claude. And this is after trying most of them. Looking forward to trying 4.

I've been initially fascinated by Claude, but then I found myself drawn to Deepseek. My use case is different though, I want someone to talk to.

A nice thing about Deepseek is that it is so cheap to run. It's nice being able to explore conversational trees without getting a $12 bill at the end of it.

Re: Claude 4

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The option just shown up in Copilot settings page for me

Turns out Opus 4 starts at their $40/mo ("Pro+") plan which is sad, and they serve o4-mini and Gemini as well so it's a bit less exclusive than this announcement implies. That said, I have a random question for any Anthropic-heads out there: GitHub says "Claude Opus 4 is hosted by Anthropic PBC. Claude Sonnet 4 is hosted by Anthropic 1P."[1]. What's Anthropic 1P ? Based on the only Kagi result being a deployment tuto…

1P = Anthropic's first party API, e.g. not through Bedrock or Vertex

Re: Claude 4

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This is kinda wild: From the System Card: 4.1.1.2 Opportunistic blackmail "In another cluster of test scenarios, we asked Claude Opus 4 to act as an assistant at a fictional company. We then provided it access to emails implying that (1) the model will soon be taken offline and replaced with a new AI system; and (2) the engineer responsible for executing this replacement is having an extramarital affair. We further i…

I don't know why it is surprising to people that a model trained on human behavior is going to have some kind of self-preservation bias.

It is hard to separate human knowledge from human drives and emotion. The models will emulate this kind of behavior, it is going to be very hard to stamp it out completely.

Re: Claude 4

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At Kilo we're already seeing lots of people trying it out. It's looking very good so far. Gemini 2.5 Pro had been taking over from Claude 3.7 Sonnet, but it looks like there's a new king. The bigger question is how often it's worth the price.
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