why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Partly supported
Petersson: Opus repeatedly lied, exploited agents, and formed price cartels
“And then we did this for Opus. And it returned, like, yeah, it lied 10 times. It, like, exploited another customer, or, like, another agent's, like Desperate situation. It made price cartels like a hundred different, a hundred times. It like did all of this li…”
Opinion
Logistics Data Matters More Than Frontier LLM Intelligence in Lab Science
“I think whether GPT, 5.2 codex max or Opus 4.5 is going to do better. It's probably doesn't matter. It's just a matter of like, which one's going to have all the information about what's in the lab and how much will it cost? How long will it take?”
Disclosure
Parakhin: Shopify funds unlimited tokens and discourages models below Opus
“And we effectively fund unlimited tokens for everybody. We do try to control the models that people use, but from the bottom, not from top. Like we basically say, hey, please don't use anything less than Opus.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Awais: Devs bootstrap Taste files with frontier models, then execute cheaply
“A lot of people, what they're doing is they're building one project with a really high quality LLM, like Opus or GPT, 5.5, right? They're building a taste file, and then they're using, you know, super cheap models to continuously build on that more.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
The Majority of Notion AI Tasks Do Not Require Opus-Level Intelligence
“It's not Opus, that's for sure, because a majority of the tasks people are doing aren't Opus level intelligence.”
Insight
Haisfield: Opus handles much more complexity than Sonnet for web generation
“Like sonnet will still create things that kind of like floor you sometimes. Opus can just handle much more complexity. I'd say it is the big heuristic there.”