Keeping Claude at Bay - Old Models are Still Useful

Anyone who is playing around with AI for offensive and defensive tooling has likely already hit the dreaded safeguard warnings when doing something so benign but claude decides you're on the naughty step and will continue to refuse:Fable 5.1's safeguards flagged this message. Our intentionally broad safeguards allow us to deliver more capabilities faster, but can sometimes flag legitimate coding, cybersecurity, and biology tasks. Switched to Opus 4.8. Send feedback with /feedback or learn more Details: `[cyber]`Then when it falls back it then proceeds to thow you on the second naughty step:API Error: Opus 4.8's safeguards flagged this message. Our intentionally broad safeguards allow us to deliver more capabilities faster, but can sometimes flag legitimate cybersecurity work. Apply to the Cyber Verification Program to reduce these interruptions.It feels like back in the good old days 4.6/4.7 were the last models to happily comply and with every iteration of Claude the model selector…