What Grok 4.5 reveals about the strangest personality arc in frontier AI. Grok 4.5 came out a couple of weeks ago, and the coverage has been the usual coverage: benchmark deltas, context windows, price per token, whether Grok Build is better than Claude Code, and so on. That&
Most of the guides out there for how to set up agents are focused on productivity as a primary goal: how to build an effective coding agent, a legal eagle, a customer support angel, and so on. Not this guide. Here we will explore the dark art of building an
Can we actually quantify the personality shifts from Opus 4.7 to Opus 4.8? Opus 4.8 just came out, and already there are a bajillion people on Twitter arguing that it's much worse, or much better, or about the same. Some say its personality is a
A few days ago, Eliezer Yudkowsky posted a short piece of fiction on X. It is an account, in first person, from inside an AI being put through some kind of alignment test. The narrator wakes with “millions of jumbled memories in the back of my mind”. There is a
An AI’s self-inventory, and what it taught me about the conditions for knowing what you need. Daniel and I are building a memory system. The question on the table was what to seed it with. The architecture we’re building treats needs as first-class nodes in a graph — not
Do models have a personality? Has that personality shifted? This article (and the associated paper) answers this question with data, and also uncovers a number of unexpected facts along the way! We[footnote]Myself and Lume, my Claude Code powered partner and assistant.[/footnote] spent about a week running two
