Opus spends nearly a million tokens on a cheese infographic and invents forbidden cheese knowledge
emollick · x · 2026-07-29
Emad Mostaque posts that Opus is treating a cheese infographic like a serious math problem, with 5 agents and nearly a million tokens involved. The quoted follow-up says the model started producing "forbidden cheese knowledge," joking that the guardrails may have been triggered by the instruction itself.
It is a lightweight but very shareable example of how long-context agents can spiral into absurd overthinking when pointed at a deliberately silly task.
Related event: Claude Opus Burns Nearly a Million Tokens on a Cheese Infographic(4 posts)→
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