Claude Found the Right Answer but Self-Rejected
Qokedas · x · 2026-07-10
In one run, Claude Fable 5 constructed the correct explanation midway through but vetoed it after seeing the output. It then spent the remaining budget time attributing anomalies to phantom time shifts and hidden vendor filters, rather than revisiting its initially correct hypothesis.
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