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Claude: Early Opus 5.5 experiments include a watermelon story

Posted on X by Claude (@claudeai) on 22 September 2026. The headline is our summary; the post itself is quoted below.

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A thread of early explorations with Claude Opus 5.5: A short story about a watermelon created by @kevin_t_ngo . pic.twitter.com/v48srlNi7V

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