Opus 5.5's fondness for "carried" and "held" sparks Opus-4.6-as-grader speculation
Sauers_ · x · 2026-10-12
User Sauers noticed Opus 5.5 likes using words like "carried" or "held," joking that Anthropic may have used Opus 4.6 as a rubric grader during training — pointing to possible model-generated preference signals shaping the new model's style.
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