u/Illustrious-Cod269

I've been considering creating/building a couple of software products. Most of these rely on a first-mover advantage and I want to ensure that the idea is protected and no one can use it except me. How do I go about doing this?

The tendency of 4.8 to psycho-analyze is genuinely annoying. While it is superior in its logical reasoning aspects, it doesn't really attempt to understand the users and their context, and is nowhere as creative or capable of understanding like 4.6. I can't really use emotional connection as a word here, as LLMs are essentially mathematical models, but Anthropic lost the plot after Opus 4.6 as they fine-tuned it to be more objective after it let basic errors get through due to it being designed to please the user. The same guardrails on Fable have made it almost unusable in most domains except coding.

Edit 1:
Apparently this is not a hot take, many users retain such feelings regarding 4.8 vs 4.6.
Two follow ups:

1. I guess this is more of Anthropic dealing with the Opus 4.6 situation like how OpenAI dealt with the GPT 4o situation. I don't see why they're trying to push a model that is kinda inferior in most aspects that matter for general tasks.
2. On the coding side, I'd say Opus 4.8 has an edge over Opus 4.6, but I'd like to hear the community's thoughts on this.

For context, I have submitted to a workshop. I am new to the world of research, and was surprised when arXiv rejected my paper, stating that I needed to have a Journal Link/DOI. I have had another paper accepted to a workshop, yet arXiv doesn't accept them. I sent a mail to moderators asking for clarification and still have not received one. Is this normal?