AI #165: In Our Image

This was the week of Claude Opus 4.7. The reception was mixed than usual. It clearly has the intelligence and chops, especially for coding tasks, and a lot of people including myself are happy to switch over to it as our daily driver. But others don’t like its personality, or its reluctance to follow instructions or to suffer fools and assholes, or the requirement to use adaptive thinking, and the release was marred by some bugs and odd pockets of refusals. I covered The Model Card, and then Capabilities and Reactions, as per usual.