Anthropic's Model Naming, Extrapolated

Source: Hacker News

Aphorism One sentence, but it always feels right

  **Haiku**
  Small poem, small bill


  Marginalia
  Provides unprompted commentary on your code


  Abstract
  Summarizes reasoning it hasn’t done


  **Sonnet**
  Medium poem, medium bill


  Diatribe
  Sonnet, but angry


  **Opus**
  Long poem, entire bill


  Treatise
  Opus, but citation is left as an exercise for the reader


  White Paper
  Treatise, but you have to enter your email to get it


  **Mythos**
  Opus, but scary


  **Fable**
  Mythos, but the moral is about AI safety


  **Fable (xhigh)**
  Bankruptcy speedrun


  Saga
  Fable, but with extra meandering


  Saga (Unabridged)
  Includes answers to unrelated questions


  Canon
  Refuses to contradict prior answers


  Lore
  Interpretation requires a wiki


  Cinematic Universe
  Multiple Sagas with a Canon dispatch layer


  Cinematic Universe (Director's Cut)
  Same answer, 42% more tokens


  Overwhelmingly Large Narrative Unit
  Requires "previously on" segment prior to usage


  Zack Snyder's Saga
  Terminal turns black and white, becomes harder to follow