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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by fragmede »

doctoboggan wrote: post #87
schmorptron wrote: post #32

Oh wow, a lot of focus on code from the big labs recently. In hindsight it makes sense that the domain the people building it know best is the one getting the most attention, and it's also the one the models have seen the most undeniable usefulness in so far. Though personally, the unpredictability of the future where all of this goes is a bit unsettling at the same time...

Along with developers wanting to build tools for developers like you said, I think code is a particularly good use case for LLMs (large language models), since the output product is a language .

It's because the output is testable. If the model outputs a legal opinion or medical advice, a human needs to be looped in to verify that the advice is not batshit insane. Meanwhile, if the output is code, it can be run through a compiler and (unit) tests run to verify that the generated code is cromulent without a human being in the loop for 100% of it, which means the supercomputer can just go off and do it a thing with less supervision.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by fnordsensei »

trevin wrote: post #69

I’m always fascinated by the fine-tuning of LLM personalities. Might we finally get less of the reflexive “You’re absolutely right” with this one? Maybe we’re entering the Emo Claude era. Per the system card: In 250k real conversations, Claude Sonnet 4.5 expressed happiness about half as often as Claude 4, though distress remained steady.

I personally enjoy the “You’re absolutely right!” exclamation. It signals alignment with my feedback in a consistent manner.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by Marazan »

blurbleblurble wrote: post #110
renewiltord wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of these perform better if you say "a reviewer recommended" or something. The role statement provides the switch vs the implementation. You have to be careful, though. They all trust "a reviewer" strongly but they'll be more careful with "a static analysis tool".

Yeah, it's wild how the biases get encoded in there. Maybe they aren't even entirely separable from the magic of LLMs.

It isn't wild, it is inherent to the very nature of large language models.

The power of using LLMs is working out what it has encoded and how to access it.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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cloverich wrote: post #108

Please y'all, when you list supportive or critical complaints based on your actual work, include some specifics of the task and prompt. Like actual prompt, actual bugs, actual feature, etc. I've had great success with both ChatGPT and Claude for years, am around 3x sustained output increase in my professional work, and kicking off and finishing new side projects / features that I used to simply not ever finish. BUT t…

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by inopinatus »

emil-lp wrote: post #124
cloverich wrote: post #108

Please y'all, when you list supportive or critical complaints based on your actual work, include some specifics of the task and prompt. Like actual prompt, actual bugs, actual feature, etc. I've had great success with both ChatGPT and Claude for years, am around 3x sustained output increase in my professional work, and kicking off and finishing new side projects / features that I used to simply not ever finish. BUT t…

How do you measure 3x sustained output increase? Is it number of lines? Tickets closed? PRs opened or merged? Number of happy customers?

It is undoubtedly 3x as many bugs.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by transcriptase »

fnordsensei wrote: post #132
trevin wrote: post #69

I’m always fascinated by the fine-tuning of LLM personalities. Might we finally get less of the reflexive “You’re absolutely right” with this one? Maybe we’re entering the Emo Claude era. Per the system card: In 250k real conversations, Claude Sonnet 4.5 expressed happiness about half as often as Claude 4, though distress remained steady.

I personally enjoy the “You’re absolutely right!” exclamation. It signals alignment with my feedback in a consistent manner.

You’re overlooking the fact that it still says that when you are, in reality, absolutely wrong.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by ipython »

johnfn wrote: post #92
blurbleblurble wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GPT-5 is like the guy on the baseball team that's really good at hitting home runs but can't do basic shit in the outfield. It also consistently gets into drama with the other agents e.g. the other day when I told it we were switching to claude code for executing changes, after badmouthing claude's entirely reasonable and measured analysis it went ahead and decided to `git reset --hard` even after I twice pushed back…

That’s such a great analogy. I always say GPT is like the genius that completely lacks common sense. One of my favorite things is when I asked it why the WiFi wasn’t working, and showed it a photo of our wiring. It said that I should tell support: > “My media panel has a Cat6 patch panel but no visible ONT or labeled RJ45 hand-off. Please locate/activate the Ethernet hand-off for my unit and tell me which jack in the…

I'm curious what you would have expected it to reply given the input you provided?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by hshshshshsh »

emil-lp wrote: post #124
cloverich wrote: post #108

Please y'all, when you list supportive or critical complaints based on your actual work, include some specifics of the task and prompt. Like actual prompt, actual bugs, actual feature, etc. I've had great success with both ChatGPT and Claude for years, am around 3x sustained output increase in my professional work, and kicking off and finishing new side projects / features that I used to simply not ever finish. BUT t…

How do you measure 3x sustained output increase? Is it number of lines? Tickets closed? PRs opened or merged? Number of happy customers?

All these are useless metrics. It doesn't say anything meaningful on the quality of your life. I would be more interested in knowing if he can now retire in next 5 years instead of waiting another 15?

Or do he now just just get to work for 2 hours and enjoy the remaining 6 hours doing meaningful things apart from staring at a screen.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by catigula »

senordevnyc wrote: post #125
cloverich wrote: post #108

Please y'all, when you list supportive or critical complaints based on your actual work, include some specifics of the task and prompt. Like actual prompt, actual bugs, actual feature, etc. I've had great success with both ChatGPT and Claude for years, am around 3x sustained output increase in my professional work, and kicking off and finishing new side projects / features that I used to simply not ever finish. BUT t…

HN is such a negative and cynical place these days that it's just not worth it. I just don't have the patience to hear yet another anti-AI rant, or have someone who is ideologically opposed to AI nitpick its output. Like you, I've found AI to be a huge help for my work, and I'm happy to keep outcompeting the people who are too stubborn to approach it with an open mind.

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