Thanks for this, I just tried the same "give me feedback on this text" prompt against both o3 and Claude 4 and o3 was indeed much more useful and much less sycophantic.
Do knowledge cutoff dates matter anymore? The cutoff for o3 was 12 months ago, while the cutoff for Claude 4 was five months ago. I use these models mostly for development (Swift, SwiftUI, and Flutter), and these frameworks are constantly evolving. But with the ability to pull in up-to-date docs and other context, is the knowledge cutoff date still any kind of relevant factor?
I understood from the ancestor comments that they are specifically talking about aspects of answer quality that are very unlikely to be related to the training cut-off date.
Unless you're talking about AI-generated training data, maybe.
