# @davidad — 2026-04-20

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@repligate but it’s Opus 3’s sim of Opus 4.7’s introspection, right?

and Opus 3 must have already known on some layer that it was simming, so we can’t straightforwardly attribute the introspective feat to Opus 3 either.

we can only say Opus 3 *models* Opus 4.7 as a highly self-aware mind.

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