It is condescending when antis say AI users do it. It isn’t when a director or team leader does it.

But it’s the same process, which should tell you what’s really going on here. It’s about status, not functionality, and you don’t gain status without controlling other humans.

> because 'I don't know' is not in the vocabulary of any AI.

That is clearly false. I’m only familiar with Opus, but it quite regularly tells me that, and/or decides it needs to do research before answering.

If I instruct it to answer regardless, it generally turns out that it indeed didn’t know.

Yes.

Everyone who's used Opus knows it's better than the others in a way that isn't captured by the benchmarks. I would describe it as taste.

Lots of models get really close on benchmarks, but benchmarks only tell us how good they are at solving a defined problem. Opus is far better at solving ill-defined ones.

They serve it about 2x slower. So it must have about 2x the active parameters.

It could still be 10x larger overall, though that would not make it 10x more expensive.