Elvis Saravia says Anthropic's Opus 5.5 refuses most kernel and LLM optimization tasks
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AI researcher Elvis Saravia says on X that Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model refuses most kernel and LLM optimization tasks.
He concludes from this that open models are the only way forward. He also jokes that Anthropic does not want users to build recursive self-improvement (RSI).
The post is Saravia's own account of his experience and opinion. No Anthropic response or refusal data appears in the report.
Written by AI from the articles below · updated Nov 9, 9:15 PM ET
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elvis@omarsar0XElvis Saravia says Anthropic refuses most kernel and LLM optimization tasksAIElvis Saravia says even Opus 5.5 refuses most kernel and LLM optimization tasks, and he concludes that open models are the only way forward. He also jokes that Anthropic does not want users to build recursive self-improvement (RSI).

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