>Similar to what others have noticed, and as I predicted 8 months ago, better models are requiring less ceremony to work effectively.

It has nothing to do with model capabilities, it's a result of purposeful persistence training at the cost of everything else from OpenAI. If you give Fable or Opus (comparable models) an "ask user" tool they will use it for ambiguous requests. Sol will never use it without a nudge and will just assume its own interpretation. Of course if you train the model to be persistent it will be persistent.