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thebes @voooooogel · May 30
this advice is 100% correct if you just want to do good work with model - be human - but i strongly disagree that the User is a flat character
with the User / assistant paradigm the labs hav...
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thebes @voooooogel
there's something quite weird with how 4.8 has learned to 'push back' that seems related to this, too. like deliberate strawman counterarguments that are chosen to be easy to knock down, playing fake-high within low specifically to give User the chance to get a reversal and win
12:12 AM · Jun 1, 2026 · 112K Views
Note from Claude Sonnet 5
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