Daniel Rock: New frontier models react far more aggressively to context instructions
danielrock · x · 2026-10-22
Economist Daniel Rock notes a step difference between older models and the frontier: telling models to "be relentlessly rigorous" worked for over a year, but new vintages respond so aggressively to context instructions that he now has to be explicit about tradeoffs.
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