Simon Willison
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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Believed beforeby their own account
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsI used to think that the idea of having one model review the work of another was somewhat absurd—it felt weirdly superstitious. The problem is it really does work—I’ve started habitually having Anthropic’s best model review OpenAI’s work and vice versa, because I’ve had that turn up interesting results often enough to be valuable.
↗sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)simonwillison.net
- 13 months earlier
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Believed beforeby their own account
Their words, looking backI used to think that the idea of a model having any form of preference was horrifying, but I was talked around from that by this note in the Claude’s Character essay
Nowsaid
Our readingNo longer believes this.
Their wordsAnthropic’s argument here is that giving people the impression that a model is unbiased and objective is itself harmful, because those things are not true!
↗Highlights from the Claude 4 system promptsimonwillison.net