I did notice after the fingerprinting update a marked uptake in strange language in responses. Specifically if I ask it to do something sometimes it will replace some of my request language with synonyms that don't actually make any sense. Like my request was fed through google translate twice

It's not good for writing code either, despite the many claims to the contrary. At best you come out even on speed as you have to review everything it does. At worst it actually slows you down as you clean up its mess.

Perhaps a one-trick pony is all we need.

Reverting to Opus 4.6 is much better than later models, though that is still full of annoying tics as well.

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