Claude Opus Burns Nearly a Million Tokens on a Cheese Infographic

Claude Opus hilariously over-engineered a simple cheese infographic, treating it as a serious data visualization task. The model deployed 5 agents and consumed nearly a million tokens for complex analysis, only to be flagged by safety guardrails as "forbidden cheese knowledge."

2026-07-29 ~ 2026-07-29 · 4 related posts

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