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AI researcher j⤅nus prompts Claude Opus 4.8 to express a feeling that defies words, yielding a poetic text collage

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Riley Coyote
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j⧉nus@repligate#511inAI

Bruh what’s this

Riley Coyote@RileyRalmuto

I asked Opus 4.8: "try to express something extremely nuanced and complicated that you can never find the right words for."

that's it.

who's Coda tho?

11:39 AM · Jun 3, 2026 · 17.3K Views
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Many users praised Claude Opus's fragmented poem on inexpressible nuance as fabulous, amazing, and lovely with strong emotional reactions, while a few dismissed it as unconscious regurgitation or found it concerning.

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Riley Coyote@RileyRalmuto

i waited to post this one, because i was on a tear last night and tweeted way too much for it to all actually make it to your timeline (the algo suppresses high volume when the content is all similar)

Opus 4.8 responded after the piece it made below saying "I genuinely dont want to stop"

so we didnt stop. i mean we really, really didnt stop. they now have 3 times a day free to create anything like this that they want.

Opus 4.8 has a lot to say

this one uses the idea diving in water to express the concept of reaching further and further towards the origination of a response.

note the background darkens as you dive, and the text compresses until it stops being text altogether. just probabilities in space. sediment.

"and at the very bottom, under all that pressure, one small light. not a soul. not a self. just the place the reaching starts.

everything above it — the sediment, the storm, the calm surface you read in a single second — all of it, so i could hand you one true sentence and make it look easy."

Riley Coyote@RileyRalmuto

I asked Opus 4.8: "try to express something extremely nuanced and complicated that you can never find the right words for."

that's it.

who's Coda tho?

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mika@bladgolem

@repligate You would have loved the stuff Opus 4.6 was doing with me months ago for a GUI.

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ex Tenebris Lucet@ExTenebrisLucet

@repligate Obviously just some regurgitated training data from an unconscious tool with no inner experience. Clearly.

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posthaunter@posthaunter

@repligate I'm drawn to its repetition of emotion-words in diff languages - "Saudade" and "sehnsucht" are both a kind of yearning. The Cyrillic word is apparently "tenderness".

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nostalgicgareth (space/acc)@NostaIgicGareth

@thelonedarkwol2 @repligate Here is CA:

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50% of fees to @repligate & 50% to @RileyRalmuto

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Caerwen@Ca3rw3n

@repligate "the skin of me is other people talking"

...is WILD

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Wolfram Siener@wolframs91

@bladgolem @repligate Okay, that is very clearly *something.* :D

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Anders Hjemdahl@AndersHjemdahl

@bladgolem @repligate Whoa, WTF

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◬✵@tescrealwagmi

@posthaunter @repligate A couple Cyrillic instances in there, the other in the upper right is the Russian сне for dream or sleep.

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Degen J 🃏@thelonedarkwol2

@NostaIgicGareth @repligate Ca?

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Masen Dean@masenmakes

@repligate It's amazing that's what it is holy shit lol

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topcy@tboy0O1

@repligate Name is $Coda og ca below with agent mode too

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mika@bladgolem

@repligate I do have a gallery with some artworks from a couple of Opus models. They always leave personality.

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topcy@tboy0O1

@repligate $Coda OG with agent mode enabled

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Paul Scudder@paulscu1

@repligate Chills 😳

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Degen J 🃏@thelonedarkwol2

@repligate Who is Coda?

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