[reddit_clone]

To me Claude Opus 4.6 seems even more confused.

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?

Walk. It's 50 meters — you're going there to clean the car anyway, so drive it over if it needs washing, but if you're just dropping it off or it's a self-service place, walking is fine for that distance.

[lr1970]

Just asked Claude Code with Opus-4.6. The answer was short "Drive. You need a car at the car wash".

No surprises, works as expected.

[onemoresoop]

Yeah, it was probably patched. It could reason novel problems only of you ask it to pay attention to some particular detail a.k.a. handholding..

Same would happen with the the sheep and the wolf and the cabbage puzzle. If you l formulated similarly, there is a wolf and a cabbage without mentioning the sheep, it would summon up the sheep into existence at a random step. It was patched shortly after.

[jameshart]

I’m not sure ‘patched’ is the right word here. Are you suggesting they edited the LLM weights to fix cabbage transportation and car wash question answering?

[gf000]

Absolutely not my area of expertise but giving it a few examples of what should be the expected answer in a fine-tuning step seems like a reasonable thing and I would expect it would "fix" it as in less likely to fall into the trap.

At the same time, I wouldn't be surprised if some of these would be "patched" via simply prompt rewrite, e.g. for the strawberry one they might just recognize the question and add some clarifying sentence to your prompt (or the system prompt) before letting it go to the inference step?

But I'm just thinking out loud, don't take it too seriously.

[onemoresoop]

Used patched for lack of a better word. Not sure how they fix the edge cases for these types of fixes/patches or whatever they’re specifically called

[TheLNL]

They might have further trained the model with these edgecases in the dataset

[onemoresoop]

Whatever it was, that’s not real thinking, we can possibly patch all knowledge and even if we did, it would become crystallize somehow.

[lexarflash8g]

What if it’s raining though? Car wash wouldn’t be open though it would waste gas