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Yeah. I just did a day with 4.7 and I won't be going back for a while. It is just too expensive. On top of the tokenization the thinking seems like it is eating a lot more too.
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haven't people been complaining lately about 4.6 getting worse?
People complain about a lot of things. Claude has been fine: https://marginlab.ai/trackers/claude-code-historical-perform...
But... Are you really going to completely rely on benchmarks that have time and time again be shown to be gamed as the complete story?
My take: It is pretty clear that the capacity crunch is real and the changes they made to effort are in part to reduce that. It likely changed the experience for users.
Just yesterday I was happy to have gotten my weekly limit reset [1]. And although I've been doing a lot of mockup work (so a lot of HTML getting written), I think the 1M token stuff is absolutely eating up tokens like CRAZY. I'm already at 27% of my weekly limit in ONE DAY. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799256
it seems to hallucinate a bit more (anecdotal)
And what about with Caveman[1]? 1. https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman
Much of the token usage is in reasoning, exploring, and code generation rather than outputs to the user.
Does making Claude sound like a caveman actually move the needle on costs? I am not sure anymore whether people are serious about this.
To me, caveman sounds bad and is not as easy to understand compared to normal English.
Interesting because I already felt like current models spit out too much garbage verbose code that a human would write in a far more terse, beautiful and grokable way
People love to throw around "this is the dumbest AI will ever be", but the corollary to that is "this is the most aligned the incentives between model providers and customers will ever be" because we're all just burning VC money for now.
It is like comparing an 8K display to a 16K display because at normal viewing distance, the difference is imperceptible, but 16K comes at significant premium.
The same applies to intelligence. Sure, some users might register a meaningful bump, but if 99% can't tell the difference in their day-to-day work, does it matter?
A 20-30% cost increase needs to deliver a proportional leap in perceivable value.
Just yesterday I was happy to have gotten my weekly limit reset [1]. And although I've been doing a lot of mockup work (so a lot of HTML getting written), I think the 1M token stuff is absolutely eating up tokens like CRAZY. I'm already at 27% of my weekly limit in ONE DAY. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47799256