This is the bit I'm most interested in: > We plan to release substantially larger improvements to our models in the coming weeks.
This is so people don't immediately migrate for GPT5
Claude Opus 4.1
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#12I'm confused by how Opus is presented to be superior in nearly every way for coding purposes yet the general consensus and my own experience seem to be that Sonnet is much much better. Has anyone switched to entirely using Opus from Sonnet? Or maybe switching to Opus for certain things while using Sonnet for others?
I now eagerly await Sonnet 4.1, only because of this release.
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#13it is barely an improvement according to their own benchmarks. not saying thats a bad thing, but not enough for anybody to notice any difference
i think its probably mostly vibes but that still counts, this is not in the charts
> Windsurf reports Opus 4.1 delivers a one standard deviation improvement over Opus 4 on their junior developer benchmark, showing roughly the same performance leap as the jump from Sonnet 3.7 to Sonnet 4.
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#14I'm confused by how Opus is presented to be superior in nearly every way for coding purposes yet the general consensus and my own experience seem to be that Sonnet is much much better. Has anyone switched to entirely using Opus from Sonnet? Or maybe switching to Opus for certain things while using Sonnet for others?
Yes, Opus is very noticeably better at programming in both Rust and Zig in my experience. I wish it were cheaper!
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#15Why is everything releasing today?
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#16I'm confused by how Opus is presented to be superior in nearly every way for coding purposes yet the general consensus and my own experience seem to be that Sonnet is much much better. Has anyone switched to entirely using Opus from Sonnet? Or maybe switching to Opus for certain things while using Sonnet for others?
Opus seems better to me on long tasks that require iterative problem solving and keeping track of the context of what we have already tried. I usually switch to it for any kind of complicated troubleshooting etc.
I stick with Sonnet for most things because it's generally good enough and I hit my token limits with it far less often.
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#17All three major labs released something within hours of each other. This anime arc is insane.
Given the GPT5 rumors, August is just getting started.
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#18I'm confused by how Opus is presented to be superior in nearly every way for coding purposes yet the general consensus and my own experience seem to be that Sonnet is much much better. Has anyone switched to entirely using Opus from Sonnet? Or maybe switching to Opus for certain things while using Sonnet for others?
Every time that Sonnet is acting like it has brain damage (which is once or twice a day), I switch to Opus and it seems to sort things out pretty fast. This is unscientific anicdata though, and it could just be that switching models (any model) would have worked.
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#19Has anyone tested it yet? How's it acting?
No obvious gains I feel from quick chats, but too early to tell.
These benchmark gains aren't that high, so I doubt it is that obvious.
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#20I'm confused by how Opus is presented to be superior in nearly every way for coding purposes yet the general consensus and my own experience seem to be that Sonnet is much much better. Has anyone switched to entirely using Opus from Sonnet? Or maybe switching to Opus for certain things while using Sonnet for others?
Every time that Sonnet is acting like it has brain damage (which is once or twice a day), I switch to Opus and it seems to sort things out pretty fast. This is unscientific anicdata though, and it could just be that switching models (any model) would have worked.
Exactly that.