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Amusingly (not really), this is me trying to get sessions to resume to then get feedback ids and it being an absolute chore to get it to give me the commands to resume these conversations but it keeps messing things up: cf764035-0a1d-4c3f-811d-d70e5b1feeefComparing Opus vs. Qwen 27b on similar problems, Opus is sharper and more effective at implementation - but will flat out ignore issues and insist "everything is fine" that Qwen is able to spot and demonstrate solid understanding of. Opus understands the issues perfectly well, it just avoids them.
This correlates with what I've observed about the underlying personalities (and you guys put out a paper the other day that shows you guys are starting to understand it in these terms - functionally modeling feelings in models). On the whole Opus is very stable personality wise and an effective thinker, I want to complement you guys on that, and it definitely contrasts with behaviors I've seen from OpenAI. But when I do see Opus miss things that it should get, it seems to be a combination of avoidant tendencies and too much of a push to "just get it done and move into the next task" from RHLF.
Here is a gist that tries to patch the system prompt to make Claude behave better https://gist.github.com/roman01la/483d1db15043018096ac3babf5...
I haven’t personally tried it yet. I do certainly battle Claude quite a lot with “no I don’t want quick-n-easy wrong solution just because it’s two lines of code, I want best solution in the long run”.
If the system prompt indeed prefers laziness in 5:1 ratio, that explains a lot.
I will submit /bug in a few next conversations, when it occurs next.
So I think the system prompt just pushes it way too hard to “simple” direction. At least for some people. I was doing a small change in one of my projects today, and I was quite happy with “keep it stupid and hacky” approach there.
And in the other project I am like “NO! WORK A LOT! DO YOUR BEST! BE HAPPY TO WORK HARD!”
So it depends.