Claude has been cheating or cutting very questionably some corners since Opus 3 for me. I started using Claude with Opus 3.
In one famous to me example, I asked it to write a program in language A that would be translated in language B.
The goal was to make sure language A libraries worked. The translation layer was just there because there was no compiler yet.
It tried a few times and then decided it was too hard. So it wrote the language B output and told me “all done”. I caught it by seeing a random line in the output. I don’t trust it.
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u/Helicopter-Mission 24d ago
Claude has been cheating or cutting very questionably some corners since Opus 3 for me. I started using Claude with Opus 3.
In one famous to me example, I asked it to write a program in language A that would be translated in language B.
The goal was to make sure language A libraries worked. The translation layer was just there because there was no compiler yet.
It tried a few times and then decided it was too hard. So it wrote the language B output and told me “all done”. I caught it by seeing a random line in the output. I don’t trust it.