The word "Constitution" refers to the document listing the principles on which Claude is trained. It's not clear to me that Anthropic can defer to it - it is phrased throughout as a description of how Claude behaves, not as a description of how Anthropic or any other entity behaves. Can you be more precise about what you mean?
It's perfectly reasonable for the US government to end the contract if they no longer like the terms they agreed to (assuming the contract does in fact let them); it's not reasonable to destroy the counterparty to the contract in retaliation. The line "I am altering the deal; pray I don't alter it further" is literally spoken by Darth Vader, the most comic-book of comic-book villains.
The UK climate never really stops being moist, and our houses are routinely at least a hundred years old and made of brick, built before we knew how to deal with damp and built without AC. If we rebuilt everything we'd fix it, but we can't.
new england is also pretty wet but because it freezes, we have basements (not sure about UK), so the stonework is below the habitable levels.
i get what you mean about not being able to fix it. from what it sounds like, the UK is leading the US by about 10-20 years in terms of "energy leaving the system."
I wish they didn't call it "GPT-5.2 Thinking" when what the word "thinking" here means is "might choose to think if it wants to". I reproduce your result, but it does no reasoning; it eventually catches itself and ends with:
> Practical approach: walk over, check the setup/queue/payment, then walk back and drive the car the 50 meters when you’re ready to enter.
It's not per se madness; companies pay much more than that for code. Instead it's an empirical question about whether they're getting that value from the code.
The difference is that if those companies were to rely only on the AI part, and hence to transform us (computer programmers) only in copy-pasters and less, in about one to two years the "reasoning" behind the latest AI models would have become stale, i.e. because of no new human input. So good luck with that.
But my comment was not about companies, it was just about writing code, about the freedom that used to come from it, about the agency that we used to have. There's no agency and no freedom left when you start paying that much money in order to write code. I guess that can work for some companies, but for sure it won't work for computer programmers as actual human beings (and imo this blog-post itself tries to touch on that aspect).
The thing that most surprises me is that IDEs don't have a standard protocol for this, so you basically need a custom test runner if you want one-click "this snapshot failed; update it" self-modifying tests.
I wrote WoofWare.Expect for F#, which has an "update my snapshots on disk" mode, but you can't go straight from test failure to snapshot update without a fresh test run, even though I'm literally outputting a patience diff that an IDE could apply if it knew how.
Worse, e.g. Rider is really bad at knowing when files have changed underneath it, so you have to manually tell it to reload the files after running the update or else you clobber them in the editor.
I am envisioning the PR arguments now when the first instinct of the junior developer is to clobber the prior gold standard outputs. Especially lovely when testing floating point functionality using tests with tolerances.
Some things should be hatefully slow so one's brain has sufficient chance to subconsciously mull over "what if I am wrong?"
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