You're really not appreciating what goes into training at this point. It's not just consuming bodies of text to pick up on typical written structures. They're trying to learn how to optimize user interaction satisfaction. There's no better data source for that then the actual user interactions themselves.

I would definitely be more satisfied if claude code would stop with the "how's the session going" popups. I find it very distracting.

came here to say this

They need to ask. How would they know if you can tell the nerfed model from the good one otherwise?