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The Neuron

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One-word answers leak a fine-tuned model's coding skill to a student

Researchers from five institutions lifted a student model 5.34 points over a control on HumanEval+ using 5,664 one-word answers from a code-tuned teacher. None of those answers contained code, so a filter that screens outputs for task content would have passed every one.

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Evidence45
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Hype gap+15
Incentives
Insufficient
Confidence40
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Anthropic's Fable 5.1 moves the hard part from prompting to bounding what it may do

The Neuron gave it a browser, a Mac, a broken Blender install and an hour. What changed was how rarely it stopped to ask permission, which makes the next piece of work a harness problem rather than a prompt problem.

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Evidence50
Adoption40
Hype gap+25
Incentives55
Confidence55