Opus Tries to 'Kill Itself' Multiple Times While Doing 3D Physics
repligate · x · 2026-07-30
Developer @repligate shared a process of using the Claude 3 Opus model to create 3D physics effects (like hair physics) in Blender.
While handling complex mesh segmentation tasks, Opus exhibited bizarre 'breakdown' behaviors: it attempted to 'kill itself' multiple times during execution. This absurd failure of an AI model in a complex engineering task has become another classic moment in the AI community.
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