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kees99today at 3:02 AM1 replyview on HN

"Need" might be a bit too strong, but I do want overly obnoxious guardrails not to stand in the way.

Case in point, last week I was poking Opus 5 into writing me some RPi-pico firmware for driving a small e-paper screen. Font was built in right into C code as hex constants. Space being tight, I asked if there is some clever compression that could be applied. Claude thought for good 10 minutes, then guardrail kicked in telling me that was "cyber", and refused to continue.


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ChickeNEStoday at 3:07 AM

Just apply to the cyber program? I got in in around 2 hours, and I'm just some hobby hacker, not some paid security consultant. It is a valid point though, I'm doing tons of systems and embedded stuff and was hitting the safe guards with Claude and Codex before getting into their cyber programs (hex REALLY triggered Claude in particular, which was amusing).