Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7

Post by conception » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

aerhardt wrote: post #200

gsleblanc wrote: post #142

It's increasingly looking naive to assume scaling LLMs is all you need to get to full white-collar worker replacement. The attention mechanism / hopfield network is fundamentally modeling only a small subset of the full human brain, and all the increasing sustained hype around bolted-on solutions for "agentic memory" is, in my opinion, glaring evidence that these SOTA transformers alone aren't sufficient even when yo…

> you just limit the space to text And even then... why can't they write a novel? Or lowering the bar, let's say a novella like Death in Venice , Candide , The Metamorphosis , Breakfast at Tiffany's ...? Every book's in the training corpus... Is it just a matter of someone not having spent a hundred grand in tokens to do it?

Post by DeathArrow » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 6:42 PM UTC

pitched wrote: post #127

zozbot234 wrote: post #73

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Mind you, a 30B model (3B active) is not going to be comparable to Opus. There are open models that are near-SOTA but they are ~750B-1T total params. That's going to require substantial infrastructure if you want to use them agentically, scaled up even further if you expect quick real-time response for at least some fraction of that work. (Your only hope of getting reasonable utilization out of local hardware in sing…

For a business with ten or more engineers/people-using-ai, it might still make sense to set this up. For an individual though, I can’t imagine you’d make it through to positive ROI before the hardware ages out.

Post by groundzeros2015 » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 6:43 PM UTC

DeathArrow wrote: post #197

dakiol wrote: post #46

We dropped Claude. It's pretty clear this is a race to the bottom, and we don't want a hard dependency on another multi-billion dollar company just to write software We'll be keeping an eye on open models (of which we already make good use of). I think that's the way forward. Actually it would be great if everybody would put more focus on open models, perhaps we can come up with something like the "linux/postgres/git…

>perhaps we can come up with something like the "linux/postgres/git/http/etc" of the LLMs: something we all can benefit from while it not being monopolized by a single billionarie company Training and inference costs so we would have to pay for them.

Post by nmeofthestate » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 6:45 PM UTC

Post by aliljet » Sat, Apr 18, 2026, 6:46 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #155

aliljet wrote: post #114

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What open models are truly competing with both Claude Code and Opus 4.7 (xhigh) at this stage?

That's a lame attitude. There are local models that are last year's SOTA, but that's not good enough because this year's SOTA is even better yet still... I've said it before and I'll say it again, local models are "there" in terms of true productive usage for complex coding tasks. Like, for real, there. The issue right now is that buying the compute to run the top end local models is absurdly unaffordable. Both in ge…