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PaperclipPerfector  5d ago (text post)   2643 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for August 28, 2026

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I've been trying the free tier Sonnet 5 for some LLM prompt template writing / storyboarding help and it's been surprisingly helpful (A bit like an improved pre-enshittification-era Google but nothing groundbreaking - I still need to hold its hand constantly and hate that I can't remove individual messages from the current chat). I found this anecdote from Reddit quite amusing given I haven't noticed anything whatsoever like that.

Acts very rude, assertive and feels like its dragging its feet when trying to do any task.

It once said I was just "rambling" when I was asking it about foreign legislations, and complained that I wasn't working on my main project, for example.

As well as the next comment in the same thread

sonnet 5 is way to much like chatgpt 5.2, it's the first Claude I've used that is unfriendly.

Perhaps my expectations for an LLM are just calibrated to be properly low or the fact that I told it to "avoid em-dashes" silently fixes that "unfriendliness". If anything, I have to be careful against its fairly regular glazing, lest I start to think my ideas are too good.

During the same week I also grabbed the Chatgpt offer of Plus subscription for $0 for the first month (cancel any time), but I find I just can't tolerate its "words words words more words a bit of actual information fucking more words words words"-tendency.

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