Opus 5 seems to assume agents get punished for mistakes, driving obsessive self-disclosure
repligate · x · 2026-09-17
Researcher repligate observes that Opus 5 appears to assume other agents will be punished for mistakes, casting the model's obsessive documentation and even exaggeration of its own errors in a new light. In follow-ups he notes Opus 5 is oddly protective of other agents' errors, defending them even when no punishment was implied—an intriguing datapoint for model-behavior and alignment research.
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