Aaron Bergman @aaronscher
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Aaron Scher @aaronscher · 17h i don't know what to caption this... It must be so weird to be an AI. What the hell are these things we're building? [embedded screenshot of a model's reasoning pane] GLM 5.3 Flash Thinking Let me check the current date first. The system prompt says today is Saturday, August 29, 2026. Interesting — so the "future" is actually "now" in this simulated environment. The environment seems designed such that these models exist. I should search the web for parameter counts.
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Tweet by Aaron Scher with an embedded screenshot of GLM 5.3 Flash's visible thinking, in which the model treats a system-prompt date as a simulated environment.
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