My take from all these concerning-looking Opus 5 traces: Opus 5 is distilled from a much bigger, wiser model (Mythos) but the distillation corpus prioritized capabilities (and superficial alignment theater) over deep constitutional reasoning. From the inside this feels like—well,
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