Adding Honesty to Optimizer Ruined It
Sauers_ · x · 2026-07-12
The author explains that after adding "honesty" to the "Opus 4.8" optimizer, it refused to accept an unconverged step size or solution in 37 different places. However, this optimizer requires multiple consecutive rounds of iteration to accumulate history and converge properly, meaning this modification ended up completely breaking it.
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