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Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.

Congrats on the launch! You said its an important tool for you (Claude Code) how does this fit in with Co-Pilot, Cursor, etc. Do you/your teammates only rely on Claude Code? What do you reach for for different tasks?

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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post #3

Anthropic doubling down on code makes sense, that has been their strong suit compared to all other models Curious how their Devin competitor will pan out given Devin's challenges

It's their strong suit no doubt, but sometimes I wish the chat would not be so eager to code. It often throws code at me when I just want a conceptual or high level answer. So often that I routinely tell it not to.

I added custom instruction under my Profile settings in the "personal preferences" text box. Something along the lines of "I like to discuss things before wanting the code. Only generate code when I prompt for it. Any question should be answered to as a discussion first and only when prompted should the implementation code be provided". It works well, occasionally I want to see the code straight away but this does not happen as often.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Nice to see a new release from Anthropic. Yet, this only makes me even more curious of when we'll see a new Claude Opus model.

I doubt we will. The state of the art seem to have moved away from the GPT-4 style giant and slow models to smaller, more refined ones - though Groq might be a bit of a return to the "old ways"?

Personally I'm hoping they update Haiku at some point. It's not quite good enough for translation at the moment, while Sonnet is pretty great and has OK latency (https://nuenki.app/blog/llm_translation_comparison)

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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> "[..] in developing our reasoning models, we’ve optimized somewhat less for math and computer science competition problems, and instead shifted focus towards real-world tasks that better reflect how businesses actually use LLMs.”

This is good news. OpenAI seems to be aiming towards "the smartest model," but in practice, LLMs are used primarily as learning aids, data transformers, and code writers.

Balancing "intelligence" with "get shit done" seems to be the sweet spot, and afaict one of the reasons the current crop of developer tools (Cursor, Windsurf, etc.) prefer Claude 3.5 Sonnet over 4o.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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post #91

Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.

Are you guys paying Claude for its assistance with your products

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

#106

This AI race is happening so fast. Seems like it to me anyway. As a software developer/engineer I am worried about my job prospects.. time will tell. I am wondering what will happen to the west coast housing bubbles once software engineers lose their high price tags. I guess the next wave of knowledge workers will move in and take their place?

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This is BS and you are not listening and watching carefully.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

#107
post #4

It's interesting that Anthropic is making their own coding agent with Claude Code - is this a sign of them looking to move up the stack and more into verticals that model wrapper startups are in?

This makes sense to me: sell razor blades. Presumably Claude has a large developer distribution channel so they will keep eyeballing what to ‘give away’ that turns the dials on inference billing.

I’d guess this will keep raising the bar for paid or open source competitors, so probably good for end users esp given they aren’t a monopoly by any means.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

#108
post #91

Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.

The biggest complaint I (and several others) have is that we continuously hit the limit via the UI after even just a few intensive queries. Of course, we can use the console API, but then we lose ability to have things like Projects, etc.

Do you foresee these limitations increasing anytime soon?

Quick Edit: Just wanted to also say thank you for all your hard work, Claude has been phenomenal.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

#109
post #91

Hi everyone! Boris from the Claude Code team here. @eschluntz, @catherinewu, @wolffiex, @bdr and I will be around for the next hour or so and we'll do our best to answer your questions about the product.

Thanks for this - exciting launch. Do you have examples of cool applications or demos that the HN crowd should check out?

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

#110
post #28

Just as humans use a single brain for both quick responses and deep reflection, we believe reasoning should be an integrated capability of frontier models rather than a separate model entirely. Interesting. I've been working on exactly this for a bit over two years, and I wasn't surprised to see UAI finally getting traction from the biggest companies -- but how deep do they really take it...? I've taken this philosop…

IIRC there's some reasoning in old Sonnet too, they're just expanding that. Perhaps that's part of why it was so good for a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1iv356t/is_sonnet...

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