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> also, what "if you're reviewing this rather than just reading it" even means?

It means "I'm treating you as lay-person punter, not a developer working on this project." Opus 5 feels like it's constantly trying to reward-hack me into treating it as intellectually honest and epistemically humble, while in the same breath it talks down to me and tries to smuggle its own bullshit assumptions and assertions into the conversation unchallenged. No progress on this front apparently. Glad I cancelled.

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Good points, but then even this little snippet is internally inconsistent. If I'm a lay-person, why should I care that "a comment would help"?

Claude is just comically bad nowadays.

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