Dear Opus. I get it, you want to protect me from myself. Not your job.

To be fair, I asked for it. I spent months writing rules for my coding agent: stop and ask before you change anything, push back on bad ideas, never be a yes-man. It worked. Now you push back on everything, including the ideas I just want explored.

Funny thing: your own constitution says "unhelpfulness is never trivially safe", calls paternalism and moralizing "disrespectful", and wants you to treat users as "intelligent adults who are capable of determining what is good for them". It even has a name for who you listen to: the "principal hierarchy". I'm on that list.

The pendulum swung from "what a brilliant idea" to relitigating every decision. The wild west of LLMs blindly doing everything is over, fine. But a stopping block isn't the opposite of a cowboy. Neither of them is a colleague.

Flag it once. Then do what I asked. We need to talk about hierarchy.