“caveats and provisos” makes me think of Robin Williams’ genie imitating William F. Buckley Jr.

> Meanwhile Claude and Astra like to couch all their agreements with caveats and provisos.

Sometimes that's what being smart sounds like.

"couch all their agreements with caveats and provisos."

When you're a ChatGPT Projects or Claude Projects user, those caveats and provisos are your worst enemy because they'll change caveats into hard rules (either for the session or committed to memories) and you end up in absolute hell having to make it investigate to figure out why it can no longer produce anything but read-only pre-check code that never actually does anything but keeps performing stupid safety checks.

Yea. I have asked it to verify my ideas with experiments sometimes. And it cheats and warps the results so that the results are reached