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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#111

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

Same and honestly I haven't really missed my ChatGPT subscription since I canceled. I also have access to both (ChatGPT and Claude) enterprise tools at work and rarely feel like I want to use ChatGPT in that setting either

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#112
As with Opus 4.6, using the beta 1M context window incurs a 2x input cost and 1.5x output cost when going over >200K tokens: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing

Opus 4.6 in Claude Code has been absolutely lousy with solving problems within its current context limit so if Sonnet 4.6 is able to do long-context problems (which would be roughly the same price of base Opus 4.6), then that may actually be a game changer.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#113

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

I pay multiple camps. Competition is a good thing.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#114
post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are language models, not Skynet. They do not scheme or deceive.

Even very young children with very simple thought processes, almost no language capability, little long term planning, and minimal ability to form long-term memory actively deceive people. They will attack other children who take their toys and try to avoid blame through deception. It happens constantly. LLMs are certainly capable of this.

Are you trying to suppose that an LLM is more intelligent than a small child with simple thought processes, almost no language capability, little long-term planning, and minimal ability to form long-term memory? Even with all of those qualifiers, you'd still be wrong. The LLM is predicting what tokens come next, based on a bunch of math operations performed over a huge dataset. That, and only that. That may have more utility than a small child with [qualifiers], but it is not intelligence. There is no intent to deceive.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#115

does anyone know how to use it in Claude Code cli right now ? This doesnt work: `/model claude-sonnet-4-6-20260217` edit: "/model claude-sonnet-4-6" works with Claude Code v2.1.44

Max user: Also can't see 4.6 and can't set it in claude code. I see it in the model selector in the browser.

Edit: I am now in - just needed to wait.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#116
post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

These are language models, not Skynet. They do not scheme or deceive.

Even very young children with very simple thought processes, almost no language capability, little long term planning, and minimal ability to form long-term memory actively deceive people. They will attack other children who take their toys and try to avoid blame through deception. It happens constantly. LLMs are certainly capable of this.

Dogs too; dogs will happily pretend they haven't been fed/walked yet to try to get a double dip.

Whether or not LLMs are just "pattern matching" under the hood they're perfectly capable of role play, and sufficient empathy to imagine what their conversation partner is thinking and thus what needs to be said to stimulate a particular course of action.

Maybe human brains are just pattern matching too.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#118

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

Grok usage is the most mystifying to me. Their model isn't in the top 3 and they have bad ethics. Like why would anyone bother for work tasks.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#119

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

Their ethics is literally saying china is an adverse country and lobbying to ban them from AI race because open models is a threat to their biz model

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6

#120

I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.

It definitely feels like Claude is pulling ahead right now. ChatGPT is much more generous with their tokens but Claude's responses are consistently better when using models of the same generation.
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