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fuck anthropic. their so called anti distillation stuff has made more recent models impossible to use. when i can see reasoning i can cut off a bad inference and prevent comprehension issues. also reified reasoning really helps make using models outside of their training distribution much easier. and it alsk lets me prevent task substituting by again preventing that reasoning from being accepted. this bs makes it much hard for me to build cool shit. :(

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Of course the little detail that you are paying for those reasoning tokens that you can't see never gets mentioned, so now they can rip you off and you'll never know the difference.

yeah, and if the resoonse is off the rails you cant catch it earlier and reduce the cost. i genuinely think this shoukd be illegal

Opus 5.5 is the best model I’ve ever used. It is certainly not “impossible” to use. The numbers back it up too. If you don’t like a product or the people selling it, don’t use it. The sense of entitlement in this post is remarkable. If you have principles, stand on them. You are not entitled to anything more here.

recent claude models smear away personal taste when its in a continuum of vocal opinions and not corrected frequently. this drift is a cross domain transfer of the stupid political neutrality when facts are “contended” publicly. it results in some nauseating opinions about current us government wrt culpability for dead children. you can replicate this yourself, just ask any >= 4.8 model about moral culpability of wh for usaid termination consequences.

also my setups for making models reliable requires reified jointly inspectable deduction traces. its also fristrating because aside from context limits ive gotten incredible work out of claude 4.5 in the past, despite its context limits being a serious bottleneck. but those reliability things interact terrible with all the safety filter bs.

to be clear this is a customer/consumer rights issue. and the real safety issue. if they are so concerned about unsafe distillation, make it easier to fucking do alignment respecting distillation. no amount of any distillation benefits any fucking paying user whatsoever. its literally a tragedy of firewalling a compilation of public commons because you raided all the book stores and libraries first

edit: im also on the market atm so if anyone wants some smart ocd focused on actual interactive agent reliability, while all my black box tooling isnt public, aside from my lack of public marketing im hard to beat

I'd love to read your writing on this.

which part? theres a few different axes and im way overdue to make some writing public

i am also working on some commercial ideas around reliability, but im not 100 percent certain that theres a market for a truely good third party harness

> actual interactive agent reliability

That's the bit that jumped out as really interesting. I've been fighting this for some time now and I'm super interested in what your take is on this.

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