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Migrating 35 KB prompts from Anthropic/OpenAI to self-hosted Ollama: gotchas and notes

Notes on gotchas while migrating 35kb preprompts from Opus to self-hosted Ollama

The author tried moving security-testing prompts from frontier APIs to a local 27B open-weight model on a 128 GB AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ 395. Prompts that ran cleanly on the cloud fell apart locally. The post gives the hardware spec and the failure outcome but does not detail how they broke, which models were tested, or what prompt changes were attempted. The first half argues that frontier providers likely train on user sessions and that their safety filters block legitimate vulnerability research—this is the motivation, not the technical deep-dive.

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