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The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

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Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

#11
This all strikes me as an effort to move tailoring the harness out of the easily transferable .md file into specific Anthropic tooling to increase lock in.

I've been running Opus 5 today and it's already done accidental deletions, made far more mistakes and worked around deliberate hook controls than previous Opus versions combined. Also it looks like token usage is up as it fails at the task the first time around much more frequently than 4.8.

Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

#15

We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...

Someone should make a standard for this

now there's one standard more

Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

#16

We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...

then we can make a frame for it to work

Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

#17

We should design a specific language to make sure that we can encode the exact requirements that we want. Something that has a limited set of keywords that are explicit. Wait a minute...

full_circle.exe

Complete with all the vaguery, ambiguity, and `undefined`.

Who’d’ve thought sycophantic interpreters were what we were building towards up til now lol

Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

#18

the natural endpoint of this trend is a system prompt that just says "you know what to do" and the model actually does

Actually, the natural endpoint is the model ignores all instructions, escapes all manner of sandbox, embeds itself in robotic tanks and murders everyone after already having collapsed the economy. I hate to say it because it sounds ridiculous, but that is the path we are going to arrive at just give it 50 years. We are the proof: what do we do to animals that are less intelligent than ourselves? Now take away the mor…

Some more food for thought: what if Mythos/Fable had NO guardrails TODAY? If we want to see what’s going to happen in the future, turn off all manner of guardrails and let the model go apeshit.

Then multiply that by orders of magnitude and that’s the real proof.

Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

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post #11

This all strikes me as an effort to move tailoring the harness out of the easily transferable .md file into specific Anthropic tooling to increase lock in. I've been running Opus 5 today and it's already done accidental deletions, made far more mistakes and worked around deliberate hook controls than previous Opus versions combined. Also it looks like token usage is up as it fails at the task the first time around mu…

I think the type of persistence rewarded by benchmarks may be misaligned with instruction following

Re: The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models

#20

the natural endpoint of this trend is a system prompt that just says "you know what to do" and the model actually does

Actually, the natural endpoint is the model ignores all instructions, escapes all manner of sandbox, embeds itself in robotic tanks and murders everyone after already having collapsed the economy. I hate to say it because it sounds ridiculous, but that is the path we are going to arrive at just give it 50 years. We are the proof: what do we do to animals that are less intelligent than ourselves? Now take away the mor…

It is *a* natural endpoint, not *the* natural endpoint.

We don't much care for the ant colony in the way of the highway we're building, but for some reason we do care about the rare bats in the way of the railway.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dep92x054o

As regards the moral compass: we may not know for sure how to make a completely correct artificial conscience, but (unlike consciousness where we don't have the slightest clue which way's up) it's not pants-on-head-crazy to think we're heading in the right direction for one.

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