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Re:GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research by sandos on Thursday November 05, 2026 @10:58AM (#50380771)
I sometimes find Sol 6.1 both printing random words, and producing code that is not super-dense, but far off from normal code with no empty lines and very logically dense.

It almost feels like its trying to protect its code from scrutiny, or like a developer who want job safety.

Re:GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research by piperswe on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:38AM (#50381248)
I've noticed it writing golfed code too. Maybe they're training it to avoid writing unnecessary whitespace tokens then run a formatter afterwards?