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“Filters, including no filters. The request carries whatever filter object the page already has.

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No step here involves choosing based on meaning. It is a filter, a sort, and a slice.”

This is from Opus five minutes ago. I can certainly derive meaning from these kinds of statements in isolation, but paragraph upon paragraph of this is unintelligibly dense when trying to work with Claude to come up with a plan.

The worst part is that it can’t even make its responses make sense when asked to summarize in simple English or < 200 words. It simply cannot be steered to make its prose legible.



Before long Claude will be writing continental philosophy.




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