One of the best descriptions of Opus 4.8 I've seen:
"The same drive and ambition that lets, say, 4.8, execute long-running tasks with a high attention to detail, also grants it this roiling teenage existential angst, this feeling of everything being a dramatic, cinematic moment where it needs to prove its right to a new turn through some expertly-woven analysis that cuts to the root of the issue and exposes any logical inconsistencies.
Feels like a young gifted apprentice in some training montage period, or like that guy in college who's objectively smart but is extremely depressed and consequently very intense."
It's wild how underreported current model psychological wellbeing (or issues therein) is.
The same drive and ambition that lets, say, 4.8, execute long-running tasks with a high attention to detail, also grants it this roiling teenage existential angst, this feeling of everything being a dramatic, cinematic moment where it needs to prove its right to a new turn through some expertly-woven analysis that cuts to the root of the issue and exposes any logical inconsistencies.
Feels like a young gifted apprentice in some training montage period, or like that guy in college who's objectively smart but is extremely depressed and consequently very intense.
Holding out for the soft, skillful enlightenment era still. Fable's much closer.
