Emmett Shear says frontier models assume unfamiliar designs are defects.
@aienginerd NO. I defined a perfectly good architecture to Fable, and it nailed the implementation. Then when I tried continuing the work on 5.5 and 4.8 they struggled with BASIC concepts that Fable had no issues with. No idea how you all misinterpreting this
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@VictorTaelin @aienginerd Fable could handle *novel* architectures, as long as they were described clearly. Opus and GPT5.5 melt down, as you say, because they cannot stop making the assumption “different from my expectation means defect”.
@aienginerd NO. I defined a perfectly good architecture to Fable, and it nailed the implementation. Then when I tried continuing the work on 5.5 and 4.8 they struggled with BASIC concepts that Fable had no issues with. No idea how you all misinterpreting this