Opus writes a Sun Tzu-style quote roasting its own unreadable long bash commands
adonis_singh · x · 2026-10-15
A user asked Anthropic's Opus to write a Sun Tzu-esque quote about the notoriously long bash commands it generates. The result: "All scripting is based on deception. When the command is long, make it seem short... Thus the reviewer, seeing everything, understands nothing, and approves." A self-aware joke about how AI-written commands get rubber-stamped by human reviewers.
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