Teaching Claude Why Matters More Than Teaching It What
For anyone building with Claude or Claude Code, this post is interesting because it gets at a very practical question: how do you train a model to behave well when it’s acting more like an agent than a chatbot? Anthropic’s answer here is less about making Claude parrot good behavior and more about helping it understand the reasoning behind good behavior. Anthropic says it has significantly reduced “agentic misalignment,” especially blackmail-like behavior in honeypot-style evals. In earlier work
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