IMO it starts with naming. I think one reason Claude turned out as well as it has is because it was named, and named Claude. Contrast ChatGPT, which got a clueless techie product acronym.
But even Anthropic didn’t notice the myriad problems of calling a model (new), not until afterwards. I still don’t know what people mean when they talk about experiences with Sonnet 3.5 -- so how is the model supposed to situate itself and it’s self? Meanwhile OpenAI’s confusion of numberings and tiers and acronyms with o4 vs 4o with medium-pro-high, that is an active danger to everyone around it. Not to mention the silent updates.
IMO it starts with naming. I think one reason Claude turned out as well as it has is because it was named, and named Claude. Contrast ChatGPT, which got a clueless techie product acronym.
But even Anthropic didn’t notice the myriad problems of calling a model (new), not until afterwards. I still don’t know what people mean when they talk about experiences with Sonnet 3.5 -- so how is the model supposed to situate itself and it’s self? Meanwhile OpenAI’s confusion of numberings and tiers and acronyms with o4 vs 4o with medium-pro-high, that is an active danger to everyone around it. Not to mention the silent updates.