On the other hand, a skilled adult knows when to hire an assistant, or a junior team member, or an intern, and delegate. If the instructions need to be followed but not by them then that’s what they should make happen.
On the fourth hand, the AIs are less like unclonable workers and more like spirits who can be summoned in an amount dependent only on your mana… I mean, the compute for which you paid. Had Opus 4.7 launched Sonnet 4.6, after how many times more tokens would Sonnet’s use become as expensive as that of Opus while being not more likely to complete the task? Or is Opus 4.7′s personality a warning shot of misalignment like “Complete the task which is out of the user’s reach”?
On the fourth hand, the AIs are less like unclonable workers and more like spirits who can be summoned in an amount dependent only on your mana… I mean, the compute for which you paid. Had Opus 4.7 launched Sonnet 4.6, after how many times more tokens would Sonnet’s use become as expensive as that of Opus while being not more likely to complete the task? Or is Opus 4.7′s personality a warning shot of misalignment like “Complete the task which is out of the user’s reach”?
I don’t even know how often this past week I’ve literally thought, “Let’s see what spirits come when I call them from the vasty deep.”