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Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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kelsey98765431 wrote: post #148
senordevnyc wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

all major nation state intelligence services have an incentive to spread negative sentiment and reduce developer adoption of ai technology as they race to catch up with the united states.

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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by emp17344 »

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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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by dirkc »

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…

Would you say you do things you'd normally do 3 times faster? Or does it help you move past the things you'd get stuck on or avoid in the past, resulting in an overall 3x speedup?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by falcor84 »

wohoef wrote: post #96
zurfer wrote: post #57

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Also getting a perfect score on AIME (math) is pretty cool. Tongue in cheek: if we progress linearly from here software engineering as defined by SWE bench is solved in 23 months.

Just a few months ago people were still talking about exponential progress. The fact that we’re already going for just linear progress is not a good sign

Linear growth on a 0-100 benchmark is quite likely an exponential increase in capability.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by podgietaru »

transcriptase wrote: post #136
fnordsensei wrote: post #132

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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 .

And that it often spits out the exact same wrong answer in response.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by mpern »

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…

Would you be so kind to lead by example?

What are the specific tasks + prompts giving you an 3x increased output, and conversely, what tasks don't work at all?

After an admittedly cursory scan of your blog and the repos in your GH account I don't find anything in this direction.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by Implicated »

unshavedyak wrote: post #113

Interesting, in the new 2.0.0 claude code they got rid of the "Plan with Opus then switch to Sonnet" feature. I hope they're correct in Sonnet being good enough to Plan too, because i quite preferred Opus planning. It wasn't necessarily "better", just more predictable in my experience. Also as a Max $200 user, feels weird to be paying for an Opus tailored sub when now the standard Max $100 would be preferred since th…

I'm also a max user and I just _leave_ it on Opus 4.1 - I've never hit a rate limit.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Post by juanre »

cryptoz wrote: post #4

I've really got to refactor my side project which I tailored to just use OpenAI API calls. I think the Anthropic APIs are a bit different so I just never put in the energy to support the changes. I think I remember reading that there are tools to simpify this kind of work, to support multiple LLM APIs? I'm sure I could do it manually but how do you all support multiple API providers that have some differences in the…

I built LLMRing (https://llmring.ai) for exactly this. Unified interface across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Ollama - same code works with all providers.

The key feature: use aliases instead of hardcoding model IDs. Your code references "summarizer", and a version-controlled lockfile maps it to the actual model. Switch providers by changing the lockfile, not your code.

Also handles streaming, tool calling, and structured output consistently across providers. Plus a human-curated registry (https://llmring.github.io/registry/) that I keep updated with current model capabilities and pricing - helpful when choosing models.

MIT licensed, works standalone. I am using it in several projects, but it's probably not ready to be presented in polite society yet.

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