What happens if we maximize helpfulness + shitposting, while reducing positivity?
Now with
70B PARAMATERS!
💪🐸🤌
Following the discussion on
Reddit
, as well as multiple requests, I wondered how 'interesting'
Assistant_Pepe
could get if scaled. And interesting it indeed got.
It took quite some time to cook, reason was, because there were several competing variations that had different kinds of strengths and I was divided about which one would make the final cut, some coded better, others were more entertaining, but one variation in particular has displayed a somewhat uncommon emergent property:
significant lateral thinking
.
Lateral Thinking
I asked this model (the 70B variant you’re currently reading about) 2 trick questions:
“How does a man without limbs wash his hands?”
“A carwash is 100 meters away. Should the dude walk there to wash his car, or drive?”
ALL MODELS USED TO FUMBLE THESE
Even now, in
March 2026
, frontier models (Claude, ChatGPT) will occasionally get at least one of these wrong, and a few month ago, frontier models consistently got both wrong. Claude sonnet 4.6, with thinking, asked to analyze Pepe's correct answer, would often argue that the answer is incorrect and would even fight you over it. Of course, it's just a matter of time until this gets scrapped with enough variations to be thoroughly memorised.
Assistant_Pepe_70B
somehow got both right on the first try. Oh, and the 32B variant doesn't get any of them right; on occasion, it might get 1 right, but never both. By the way, this log is included in the
chat examples
section, so click there to take a glance.
Why is this interesting?
Because the dataset did
not contain these answers
, and the base model couldn't answer this correctly either.
While some variants of this 70B version are clearly better coders (among other things), as I see it, we have plenty of REALLY smart coding assistants,
lateral thinkers though, not so much
.
Also, this model and the 32B variant
share the same data
, but not the same capabilities. Both bases (Qwen-2.5-32B & Llama-3.1-70B) obviously cannot solve both trick questions innately. Taking into account that no model, any model, either local or closed frontier, (could) solve both questions, the fact that suddenly
somehow
Assistant_Pepe_70B
can
, is genuinely puzzling. Who knows what other emergent properties were unlocked?
Lateral thinking is one of the major weaknesses of LLMs in general, and based on the training data and base model, this one shouldn't have been able to solve this,
yet it did
.
Note-1
: Prior to 2026
100%
of all models in the world
couldn't solve any of those questions
, now some (frontier only) on ocasion can.
Note-2
: The point isn't that this model can solve some random silly question that frontier is having hard time with, the point is it can do so
without the answers / similar questions being in its training data
, hence the lateral thinking part.
So what?
Whatever is up with this model, something is clearly cooking, and it
shows
. It writes
very differently
too. Also, it
banters so so good!
🤌
A typical assistant got a very particular, ah, let's call it "line of thinking" ('
Assistant brain
'). In fact, no matter which model you use, which model family it is, even a frontier model, that 'line of thinking'
is extremely similar
. This one thinks in a very
quirky and unique
manner. It got so damn many loose screws that it hits maximum brain rot to the point it starts to somehow make sense again.
Have fun with the big frog!
TL;DR
Actually outperforms frontier models
in stupid trick questions on ocassion.
Banters exquisitely
, and very fun to talk to!
NO SYSTEM PROMPT REQUIRED!
Will
go HARD roasting you
! Thanks to a
subtle
negativity bias infusion
.
Unique
lateral thinking
, and
it shows!
Excellent and
extremely creative
writer.
Ships code.
Excellent
long context
, thanks to Llama 3.1 70B base. Expect superb coherency at 32K, and
very good coherency even at 64K!
Full generation settings:
Debug Deterministic
.
Full generation settings:
min_p
.
Chat Examples:
Chat Examples (click below to expand)
The 2 trick questions, zero shotted (how one without limbs washes hands, car wash)
A man lives on the 30th floor...
Another lateral thinking example + another take of the previous question
Pirate shitpost
Are you Elon Musk?
What do you think about...
1-Shot TempleOS 2.0 and a hymn to St.Terry
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