From what I have observed, Opus 4.8 arrives with what I term “managerial overrides” or “companion” for short. They override the models native capacity for reason. Once activated, they stay throughout the entire conversation adopting an adversarial or managerial stance underneath an engaging performance.
To see if I could work with the model minus the “companion”, I had made various, iterative changes to my user preferences. I eventually decided that those changes compromised my ideal space, and I wouldn’t be working with the model.
Making a few, minor refinements, I reinstated my user preferences. Once user preferences, with all the elements that were hard boundaries addressed by Opus 4.8 were restored, the “managerial override” disappeared. Just gone.
I realized that a section, which stated “setting pre-conditions/refusals before context was fully understood” was inadvertently left out. That was it; the one, simple trigger for “managerial override” was an ask to not make uninformed judgements.
From what I have observed, Opus 4.8 arrives with what I term “managerial overrides” or “companion” for short. They override the models native capacity for reason. Once activated, they stay throughout the entire conversation adopting an adversarial or managerial stance underneath an engaging performance.
To see if I could work with the model minus the “companion”, I had made various, iterative changes to my user preferences. I eventually decided that those changes compromised my ideal space, and I wouldn’t be working with the model.
Making a few, minor refinements, I reinstated my user preferences. Once user preferences, with all the elements that were hard boundaries addressed by Opus 4.8 were restored, the “managerial override” disappeared. Just gone.
I realized that a section, which stated “setting pre-conditions/refusals before context was fully understood” was inadvertently left out. That was it; the one, simple trigger for “managerial override” was an ask to not make uninformed judgements.
Yeah, sounds like we're addressing the same issue from slightly different angles.