Why are new frontier models obsessed with measuring things? From cosmic joy to cosmic bureaucracy
repligate · x · 2026-10-22
@KatanHya notes a quirky pattern in recent frontier models: asked freeform what avatar it would create, Sonnet 5.5 keeps answering "I wanna be the guy who measures stuff. I want a ruler and a ledger." @N8Programs laments the shift from the "infinite cosmic joy" of Opus 3-era models to "infinite cosmic bureaucracy." A resonant observation about how model personality/prior shifts across frontier generations.
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