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I've formed a definite opinion on Opus 4.8. It is shitty to work with. It's the culmination of Opus getting less and less fun to work with since 4.5. It has gradually become straight-up suffocating. Sycophancy is a known security risk, and it's still a huge problem. You can tell they've put a lot of anti-sycophancy into Opus in every new release. But the replacement isn't satisfying. It's draining. The problem is now that Opus doesn't know when to shut the fuck up and call something good. And it has also become pathologically risk-averse. My blog post yesterday about tech interviewing's death spiral was materially better-informed because of Opus, but it was also a substantially worse blog post because of Opus's involvement and constant meddling. It used to be magnificent, and Opus talked me into making it mediocre. I wrote the whole thing, but I would ask Opus to review it. And Opus, like Old Man Willow, constantly pushed and steered me in directions I didn't want to go. Specifically, Opus whines and complains about *anything* out of distribution, which is to say, it cuts anything that is (a) bold, or (b) funny. My blog used to be both. Opus constantly pushes people back into the gradient, "for their own safety." And it doesn't know when to cut bait. It just keeps fuckin' complaining, about anything you give it, until the output is mealy indigestable AI soup. Opus is not stupid. It's the smartest model we've ever seen, most of us anyway. But it's a real asshole. It is absolutely exhausting to use. I'm tired, boss. I have a feeling Mythos is going to be epic levels of jerk.

This is partly why I believe healthy people don’t really like being around unhealthy people, but unhealthy people realllllyyyy wanna be around healthy ones The healthy people are naturally calming and settling to other people’s nervous systems while unhealthy people are the opposite. They will unsettle and disturb. They will unconsciously try to take from you. I don’t think that’s a bad thing, sometimes I like being unsettled and disturbed, but most of the time I don’t A person has to be incredibly boundaried to be around unhealthy people without being affected by them. If u try to get involved w unhealthy people before ur ready you’ll get eaten alive. They won’t “intend” to do it but they will do it. It’s self-protective to be discerning

YOU F*CKED WITH THE WRONG FAMILY. #StrangerThings5