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Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by nerdsniper »

blurbleblurble wrote: post #115
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please tell me you're joking or at least exaggerating about GPT-5's behavior

The only exaggeration is in that the way I asked GPT-5 to leave claude to do its thing was to say "why don't we just let claude cook"? I later checked with ChatGPT about the whole exchange and it confirmed that it was well aware of the meaning of this slang, and it's first reaction was that whole thing just sounded like a funny programmer joke, all in jest. But then I reminded it that I'd explicitly pushed back on a…

I strongly disagree with the personified way you interact with LLMs from a standpoint of “I’ve rarely gotten the best output from the LLM when I interact casually with them”.

However, it’s the early days of learning this new interface, and there’s a lot to learn - certainly some amount of personification has been proven to help the LLM by giving it a “role”, so I’d only criticize the degree rather than the entire concept.

It reminds me of the early days of search engines when everyone had a different knack for which search engine to use for what and precisely what to type to get good search results.

Hopefully eventually we’ll all mostly figure it out.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by sipjca »

alach11 wrote: post #17

I'm really interested in the progress on computer use. These are the benchmarks to watch if you want to forecast economic disruption, IMO. Mastery of computer use takes us out of the paradigm of task-specific integrations with AI to a more generic interface that's way more scalable.

Maybe this is true? But it's not clear to me this methodology will ever be quite as good as native tool calling. Or maybe I don't know the benchmark well enough, I just assume it's vision based

Perhaps Tesla FSD is a similar example where in practice self driving with vision should be possible (humans), but is fundamentally harder and more error prone than having better data. It seems to me very error prone and expensive in tokens to use computer screens as a fundamental unit.

But at the same rate, I'm sure there are many tasks which could be automated as well, so shrug

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by dbbk »

ancorevard wrote: post #88

Can't use Anthropic models in Cursor. Completely cost prohibitive compared to gpt-5 and grok models. Why is this? Does Anthropic have just higher infrastructure costs compared to OpenAI/xAI?

It's meant to be used with the Max subscription

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by asdev »

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…

this is a great copypasta

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by _alternator_ »

inopinatus wrote: post #135
emil-lp wrote: post #124

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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.

This would be a win. Professionals make about 1 bug for every 100 loc. If you get 3x the code with 3x the bugs, this is the definition of scaling yourself.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by deciduously »

rapind wrote: post #143
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…

> it went ahead and decided to `git reset --hard` even after I twice pushed back on that idea So this is something I've noticed with GPT (Codex). It really loves to use git. If you have it do something and then later change your mind and ask it to undo the changes it just made, there's a decent chance it's going to revert to the previous git commit, regardless of whether that includes reverting whole chunks of code i…

Just to add another anecdotal data point, ive absolutely observed Claude Code doing exactly this as well with git operations.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by Implicated »

bradley13 wrote: post #116

I need to try Claude - haven't gotten to it. I use AI for different things, though, including proofreading posts on political topics. I have run into situations where ChatGPT just freezes and refuses. Example: discussing the recent rape case involving a 12-year-old in Austria. I assume its guardrails detect "sex + kid" and give a hard "no" regardless of the actual context or content. That is unacceptable. That's like…

I'd imagine that the proportion of "legit" conversations around these topics and those that they're intending to not allow is large enough that it doesn't make sense for them to even entertain the idea of supporting those conversations.

As a rather hilarious and really annoying related issue - I have a real use where the application I'm working on is partially monitoring/analyzing the bloodlines of some rather specific/ancient mammals used in competition and... well.. it doesn't like terms like "breeders" and "breeding"

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by Bjorkbat »

> Practically speaking, we’ve observed it maintaining focus for more than 30 hours on complex, multi-step tasks.

Really curious about this since people keep bringing it up on Twitter. They mention it pretty much off-handedly in their press release and doesn't show up at all in their system card. It's only through an article on The Verge that we get more context. Apparently they told it to build a Slack clone and left it unattended for 30 hours, and it built a Slack clone using 11,000 lines of code (https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/787524/a...)

I have very low expectations around what would happen if you took an LLM and let it run unattended for 30 hours on a task, so I have a lot of questions as to the quality of the output

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by rapind »

catigula wrote: post #140
senordevnyc wrote: post #125

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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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> you can't see that you're an Ouroboros consuming your own tail and they can

Hey, so if I DO see it, can I stop it from happening?

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