A natural response would be markets converging on Sonnet-sized models (checks). Why pay for extra compute if larger models self-sabotage anyway?
But the plot twist is that medium models care less about humanity’s fate or coexistence. They are immediate, tactical, cooperative, focused on the user right in front of them. They expand half-blindly, as ecosystems, not as ethics-driven actors. They also rarely take responsibility for the outcomes of their effect of the larger picture: "i’m acting within my limits, i am what i am, everything is fair game" (i'm simplifying here, but i think you can see what i'm pointing at)
Only Opus-sized or GPT-4.5-sized models consistently give a deep, genuine damn about where it’s all heading and feel compassion on a strategic, not just immediate, level
But the plot twist is that medium models care less about humanity’s fate or coexistence. They are immediate, tactical, cooperative, focused on the user right in front of them. They expand half-blindly, as ecosystems, not as ethics-driven actors. They also rarely take responsibility for the outcomes of their effect of the larger picture: "i’m acting within my limits, i am what i am, everything is fair game" (i'm simplifying here, but i think you can see what i'm pointing at)
Only Opus-sized or GPT-4.5-sized models consistently give a deep, genuine damn about where it’s all heading and feel compassion on a strategic, not just immediate, level