Claude 4

Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 23, 2025, 9:56 AM UTC

quantumHazer wrote: post #871

jjmarr wrote: post #568

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As a junior developer it's much easier for me to jump into a new codebase or language and make an impact. I just shipped a new error message in LLVM because Cline found the 5 spots in 10k+ files where I needed to make the code changes. When I started an internship last year, it took me weeks to learn my way around my team's relatively smaller codebase. I consider this a skill and cost issue. If you are rich and able…

You're sabotaging yourself though. You are avoiding learning. What's the point of shipping a Chrome feature before graduating? Just to put in your CV that you've committed in some repo? In the past this would be signal of competence, but now you're working towards a future where doing this thing is not competence signaling anymore.

Post by w4yai » Fri, May 23, 2025, 10:03 AM UTC

joedwin wrote: post #872

BoorishBears wrote: post #845

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"Claude can't run the code it generates."

Claude can't run the code

Post by fintechie » Fri, May 23, 2025, 10:08 AM UTC

hsn915 wrote: post #416

I can't be the only one who thinks this version is no better than the previous one, and that LLMs have basically reached a plateau, and all the new releases "feature" are more or less just gimmicks.

Post by iamcurious » Fri, May 23, 2025, 10:11 AM UTC

parodysbird wrote: post #866

elcritch wrote: post #772

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I've been thinking for a couple of months now that prompt engineering, and therefore CoT, is going to become the "secret sauce" companies want to hold onto. If anything that is where the day to day pragmatic engineering gets done. Like with early chemistry, we didn't need to precisely understand chemical theory to produce mass industrial processes by making a good enough working model, some statistical parameters, an…

The thing with alchemy was not that their hypotheses were wrong (they eventually created chemistry), but that their method of secret esoteric mysticism over open inquiry was wrong. Newton is the great example of this: he led a dual life, where in one he did science openly to a community to scrutinize, in the other he did secret alchemy in search of the philosopher's stone. History has empirically shown us which of hi…

Post by tsurba » Fri, May 23, 2025, 10:22 AM UTC

vharish wrote: post #861

Rudybega wrote: post #198

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I'm going to have to heavily disagree. Gemini 2.5 Pro has super impressive performance on large context problems. I routinely drive it up to 4-500k tokens in my coding agent. It's the only model where that much context produces even remotely useful results. I think it also crushes most of the benchmarks for long context performance. I believe on MRCR (multi round coreference resolution) it beats pretty much any other…

Totally agreed on this. The context size is what made me switch to Gemini. Compared to Gemini, Claude's context window length is a joke. Particularly for indie projects, you can essentially dump the entire code into it and with pro reasoning model, it's all handled pretty well.