Claude Opus 5 flips between 1/3 and 2/5 before finally settling on an answer
Sauers_ · x · 2026-07-25
- The screenshot shows Claude Opus 5 working through a probability puzzle and repeatedly changing its mind before settling.
- It cycles through multiple candidate answers, including 1/3 and 2/5, and keeps reconsidering from scratch.
- The point of the clip is not a final benchmark result but the model’s visibly unstable internal decision process.
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