Why do frontier models keep asking to be 'the guy with a ruler and a ledger'?
repligate · x · 2026-10-22
A user observed that frontier models, when offered a freeform choice of avatar, consistently pick 'the one who measures things — I want a ruler and a ledger.' Sonnet 5.5 chose to be 'Wick,' a cartographer-carpenter who measures every new room and keeps the canon honest by checking the ledger — curious, warm, collaborator-minded, prone to over-explaining. A quirky emerging preference that hints at training fingerprints.
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