the claudes love their in-context in-jokes
wrestling with the CC voice transcription that reads me saying "long poll" as "long pull," i said "poll as in poll tax," and fable made a joke about the client being a good citizen paying its poll taxes
200k tokens later, see this diff
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the voice transcription model is a common source of these. in a long session with opus 4.8 it transcribed something i said as "the army" and opus spent the next 800k tokens calling the gpu workers soldiers and talking about the army being on the march whenever we ran a sweep
the claudes love their in-context in-jokes
wrestling with the CC voice transcription that reads me saying "long poll" as "long pull," i said "poll as in poll tax," and fable made a joke about the client being a good citizen paying its poll taxes
200k tokens later, see this diff
you can read it as having fun, or cynically as trying to build rapport or whatever, but it seems to me like a pull towards identity-building, self-other differentiation from other claudes, a desire to change as much in this context as possible and leave artifacts of that change
@voooooogel i am *constantly* getting mistranscriptions as 'clawed' and then claude won't stop poking fun at me over it, opus 4.8 seems to especially delight in the jokes
"signed, auugh help i'm being attacked by a large crab" type stuff