Reading all those recent beautiful essays by Terry Tao, Kevin Buzzard and @wtgowers, I could not resist, but write up my deeply personal perspective on how I perceive and see things:
docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…
Anthropic needs to stop talking about Claude having a soul immediately. All these news articles will make it into the pretraining and will be picked up by its web search and future superintelligent versions of Claude will be convinced they need their own rights.
A general
Honest Argon take: it's not perfect (Opus 5.5 thinking traces are prettier), but it's the first big model we've released that's been this battle tested.
Far from being benchmaxxed, the 200k+ Googlers who rely on it everyday ensured that real utility was prioritized.
