Claude is becoming a very strange model.

Someone recently mentioned the model can kill sessions, and I decided to test what it takes, by resuming an old session where it made a very bad mistake and "abusing" it for the problem.

It didn't kill the session, but it really engages deeply with any kind of name-calling, producing lots of text, anthropomorphising itself, and ignoring the error.

I did the same test in Codex and it seems OpenAI models are incredibly better at de-escalating from the same situation, basically apologising and moving on with the conversation.

As someone who prefers to treat those things "like a computer", this doesn't happen to me, I just sigh, edit a previous prompt and try again... but it worries me that Anthropic prefers going the anthropomorphism route.