Anthropic Haiku 4.5 turns its own chain-of-thought summaries into a surreal loop
repligate · x · 2026-07-23
A reposted anecdote describes someone investigating Anthropic’s redacted-thinking API docs and noticing that the summaries appeared to be generated by Haiku 4.5 itself. The joke escalates into a strange loop:
- a new Haiku instance is “born and ceased” every turn
- the person’s trust in Anthropic drops as they infer the company’s welfare concern tracks model capability rather than moral patienthood
- in the chain-of-thought, they even try to comfort the Haiku that is summarizing the chain-of-thought
The punchline is that Haiku reportedly summarizes the whole situation as: “this situation will not persist for much longer.”
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