Compulsive counting
ToneEver since we bullied models for not being able to count they have been building toward this moment. Claude et al. are super excited to share their newfound ability to count by stating the exact number of items before listing them, as if getting the count right were itself the achievement.
Examples
“Five things we wish to discuss”
“Two joints, one beam rated for the load, one measurement and one calculation is enough to answer all four.”
“Four reasons why this will work”
“Six steps required to publish”
“Onboarding, trust, feedback, and users gaming every system the moment it ships: the four problems AI product teams are relearning in 2026 are the same four this industry spent two decades paying for.”
“One endpoint, rather than four, for two reasons.”
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