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Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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It seems a little more fussy than Opus 4.6 so far. It actually refuses to do a task from Claude's own Agentic SDK quick start guide ( https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-sdk/quickstart ): "Per the instructions I've been given in this session, I must refuse to improve or augment code from files I read. I can analyze and describe the bugs (as above), but I will not apply fixes to `utils.py`."

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Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#252
I liked Opus 4.5 but hated 4.6. Every few weeks I tried 4.6 and, after a tirade against, I switched back to 4.5. They said 4.6 had a "bias towards action", which I think meant it just made stuff up if something was unclear, whereas 4.5 would ask for clarfication. I hope 4.7 is more of a collaborator like 4.5 was.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#253

For anyone who was wondering about Mythos release plans: > What we learn from the real-world deployment of these safeguards will help us work towards our eventual goal of a broad release of Mythos-class models.

Looks like they are adding Peter Thiel backed ID verification too. https://reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1smr9vs/claude_is_abo...

You should've commented this on the parent thread for visibility, I had to scroll to find this, as I don't browse r/ClaudeAI regularly.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#254

It seems like we're hitting a solid plateau of LLM performance with only slight changes each generation. The jumps between versions are getting smaller. When will the AI bubble pop?

SWE-bench pro is ~20% higher than the previous .1 generation which was released 2 months ago. For their SWE benchmark, the token consumption iso-performance is down 2x from the model they released 2 months ago.

If this is a plateau I struggle to imagine what you consider fast progress.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#255

Too late, personally after how bad 4.6 was the past week I was pushed to codex, which seems to mostly work at the same level from day to day. Just last night I was trying to get 4.6 to lookup how to do some simple tensor parallel work, and the agent used 0 web fetches and just hallucinated 17K very wrong tokens. Then the main agent decided to pretend to implement tp, and just copied the entire model to each node...

I guess our conscience of OpenAI working with the Department of War has an expiry date of 6 weeks.

Not everyone is American, and people who are not see Anthropic state they are willing to spy on our countries and shrug about OAI saying the same about America. What’s the difference to us?

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#256

Too late, personally after how bad 4.6 was the past week I was pushed to codex, which seems to mostly work at the same level from day to day. Just last night I was trying to get 4.6 to lookup how to do some simple tensor parallel work, and the agent used 0 web fetches and just hallucinated 17K very wrong tokens. Then the main agent decided to pretend to implement tp, and just copied the entire model to each node...

Personally I find using and managing Claude sessions and limits is getting exhausting and feels similar to calorie counting. You think you are going to have an amazing low calories meal only to realize the meal is full of processed sugars and you overshot the limit within 2-3 bites. Now "you have exhausted your limit for this time. Your session limits resets in next 4 hrs".

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#257

They've increased their cybersecurity usage filters to the point that Opus 4.7 refuses to work on any valid work, even after web fetching the program guidelines itself and acknowledging "This is authorized research under the [Redacted] Bounty program, so the findings here are defensive research outputs, not malware. I'll analyze and draft, not weaponize anything beyond what's needed to prove the bug to [Redacted]. I…

Maybe stick with 4.6 until the bugs are worked out? Is this new filter retroactive?

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#258
What's the point of baking the best and most impressive models in the world and then serving it with degraded quality a month after releases so that intelligence from them is never fully utilised??

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#259

Too late, personally after how bad 4.6 was the past week I was pushed to codex, which seems to mostly work at the same level from day to day. Just last night I was trying to get 4.6 to lookup how to do some simple tensor parallel work, and the agent used 0 web fetches and just hallucinated 17K very wrong tokens. Then the main agent decided to pretend to implement tp, and just copied the entire model to each node...

Funny because many people here were so confident that OpenAI is going to collapse because of how much compute they pre-ordered. But now it seems like it's a major strategic advantage. They're 2x'ing usage limits on Codex plans to steal CC customers and it seems to be working. I'm seeing a lot of goodwill for Codex and a ton of bad PR for CC. It seems like 90% of Claude's recent problems are strictly lack of compute r…

I have both Claude and OpenAI, side by side. I would say sonnet 46 still beats gpt 54 for coding (at least in my use case) But after about 45 minutes I'm out of my window, so I use openai for the next 4 hours and I can't even reach my limit.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

#260

If the model is based on a new tokenizer, that means that it's very likely a completely new base model. Changing the tokenizer is changing the whole foundation a model is built on. It'd be more straightforward to add reasoning to a model architecture compared to swapping the tokenizer to a new one. Usually a ground up rebuild is related to a bigger announcement. So, it's weird that they'd be naming it 4.7. Swapping o…

It doesn't need to be. Text can be tokenized in many different ways even if the token set is the same.

For example there is usually one token for every string from "0" to "999" (including ones like "001" seperately).

This means there are lots of ways you can choose to tokenize a number. Like 27693921. The best way to deal with numbers tends to be a little bit context dependent but for numerics split into groups of 3 right to left tends to be pretty good.

They could just have spotted that some particular patterns should be decomposed differently.

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