kimi k2 thinking turbo

"He’s not being poetic; he’s weaponizing nostalgia. Quoting Casablanca—the ultimate “beautiful sacrifice” romance—to taunt Morton about corporate backstabbing is pure executive sleaze. It’s the same move as his mahogany desk and flag pin: draping sentimental Americana over naked power. He’s essentially saying, “Isn’t it romantic, Bob? You fought the good fight, now you die.” "

grok 4.1

"So when Dick Jones smirks and says, “Time goes by, it’s the same old story… the fight for love and glory, huh, Bob?” that’s pure Ed Neumeier flexing his love of old Hollywood while simultaneously mocking how these psychopathic ’80s execs think they’re in some grand cinematic drama instead of just murdering a guy for market share."

chatgpt-4o

"The reason the Casablanca reference matters is RoboCop itself is partially a noir—and also a tragedy built inside a genre engine. [… ] So yeah, calling back to Casablanca is not just some meta-joke—it’s a knowing wink that RoboCop is a noir trapped in cybernetic skin. // Even Clarence Boddicker, for all his cartoonish sadism, plays like a twisted stand-in for a noir heavy—talking smooth, dropping nicknames, throwing out casual violence like it’s a punchline."

opus 4.5

"Jones is performing avuncular menace. He's the kind of executive who'd quote old movies while having you murdered, because it's all performance to him, all style. The substance is just power."

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For example the fact that AI can code as well as Torvalds doesn't displace his economic value. On the contrary he pays for a subscription so he can vibe code!

The actual work AI has displaced is stuff like: freelance translation, graphic illustration, 'content writing' (writing seo optimized pages for Google) etc. That's instructive I suppose. Like if your income source can already be put on upwork then AI can displace it

So even in those cases there are ways to not be displaced. Like diplomatic translation work can be part of a career rather than just a task so the tool doesn't replace your 'job'.

Cause consider the previous status quo. It was considered somehow scandalous for Bill Clinton to have an opinion on what his AG Janet Reno was doing

But what's interesting to me is the counterfactual like outside of these 3 queen moves he would have lost the entire advantage. So it was like a tactical shot like capturing the golden snitch in Harry Potter

If you use AI as a Heads-up Display you can't make a giant scroll of every text change you accepted.

1. Morphy vs. Duke of Brunswick (The Opera Game)

https://lichess.org/study/xAo78qLb/truC6WoM

16. Qb8+.

This is viewed as Morphy doing a stylish Queen sacrifice

But if you look at the MultiPV:

Qb8+* leads to forced mate.

Qc3 or Qb7 drops the advantage significantly.

Qb5 actually allows equality

If he had played anything else, he would have been imprecise. It wasn't a gamble

2. D. Byrne vs. Fischer (Game of the Century)

https://lichess.org/study/UZlSqSLA/Ku9M59je

Fischer plays 17... Be6, leaving his Queen hanging.

Standard narrative: "Fischer offers his Queen for a mating attack!"

Engine reality: 17... Be6 is the correct move. Trying to save the Queen actually loses the advantage.

Byrne taking the Queen (18. Bxb6) was a massive blunder. The engine actually wants Byrne to ignore the Queen and trade off Fischer's Knight on c3. He ends up with a Queen stranded on a3, a total spectator

I wonder how much of Anthropic's success is based on a horde of prompt to code examples that they post-train on. We shouldn't assume Opus' web dev skills are the same as general intelligence

Here's something Sonnet 4 did (Jul 2025) that I don't think a human intern would do when I made a wikisource tool (transcript follows)

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F:

let’s see how the wikisource tool wrks.. let’s try to match “Mary hath chosen that good part” in one of the bible sources they should have

Claude: Great idea! Let me first search for some biblical content on WikiSource, then use the content match tool.

wiki_source_search

Perfect! Let me try the Douay-Rheims version of Luke, which should have the Mary and Martha story:

wiki_source_page_content_match

No matches! Let me try a slightly different phrasing – maybe it’s “hath chosen the good part”:

wiki_source_page_content_match

Still nothing. Let me try searching for just “Martha” to see if the story is there:

F:

dummy .. why would use kjv wording in a different edition lol

Claude: Haha you’re absolutely right! I was being completely silly – of course the KJV wording “Mary hath chosen that good part” wouldn’t be in the Douay-Rheims translation. Different translations use different language entirely.

What I Did Wrong: • Used King James Version phrasing in a Catholic translation • The Douay-Rheims says “Mary hath chosen the best part” • I was looking for “good part” (KJV wording)

Should Have Started With: Just searching for “Martha” or “Mary” to see what the actual text says in that translation, then used the exact wording I found.

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It's almost comedic.. "Perfect! Let me try the Douay-Rheims version of Luke" is where if you were watching a horror movie you'd say "Don't go down to the basement fridge!"

And I think a human when they first see the text match fail would go "hmm--ohh" but Claude starts doing permutations. This I guess is the side effect of Reinforcement Learning and system prompts that amount to saying: "Just do it. Don't ask questions. Just do it."