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rco8786 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice

If they’re reaching the same results across a variety of the most popular public models, it doesn’t seem like that big a deal to know if it was Opus 4 or Opus 4.5

hn_throwaway_99 3 months ago [–]

Reproducibility is (supposed to be) a cornerstone of science. Model versions are absolutely critical to understand what was actually tested and how to reproduce it.

joaogui1 3 months ago | [–]

The models get deprecated after 1-2 years, so reproducibility is pretty hard anyway (but as others pointed out the paper does list the model versions)

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