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Why is everything releasing today?
I'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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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.
They both seem to behave differently depending on how loaded the system seems to be.
it 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'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'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?
So this release might change that consensus? If you believe the benchmarks are reflective of reality anyways.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They both seem to behave differently depending on how loaded the system seems to be.
I have suspected for a long time that hosted models load shed by diverting some requests to lesser models or running more quantized versions under high load.
I'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 notice that on the "Agentic Coding" benchmark cited in the article Sonnet 4 outperformed Opus 4 (by 0.2%), and under performs Opus 4.1 (by -1.8%). So this release might change that consensus? If you believe the benchmarks are reflective of reality anyways.
That's a big "if." But yeah, I can't tell a difference subjectively between Opus and Sonnet, other than maybe a sort of placebo effect. I'm more careful to write quality prompts when using Opus, because I don't want to waste the 5x more expensive tokens.
I'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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
They both seem to behave differently depending on how loaded the system seems to be.
I have suspected for a long time that hosted models load shed by diverting some requests to lesser models or running more quantized versions under high load.