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Claude Opus 4.1

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Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by Pxtl »

avemg wrote: post #91
ryandrake wrote: post #73

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Thanks. With the CLI, can you get Copilot-ish things like tab-completion and inline commands directly in your IDE? Or do you need to copy/paste to and from a terminal? It feels like running a command on the IDE and then copying the output into your IDE is a pretty primitive way to operate.

My advice is this: 1) Completely separate in your mind the auto-completion features from the agentic coding features. The auto-completion features are a neat trick but I personally find those to be a bit annoying overall, even if they sometimes hit it completely right. If I'm writing the code, I mostly don't want the LLM autocompletion. 2) Pay the $20 to get a month of Claude Pro access and then install Claude Code.…

Is there any more agent-oriented approach where it just push/pulls a git repo like a normal person would, instead of running it on my machine? I'd like to keep it a bit more isolated and having it push/pull its own branches seems tidier.

Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by qingcharles »

esafak wrote: post #271
qingcharles wrote: post #148

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This isn't correct. GitHub Copilot now totally competes with Claude Code. You can have it create an entire app for you in "Agent" mode if you're feeling brave. In fact, seeing as Copilot is built directly into Visual Studio when you download it, I guess they have a one-up. Copilot isn't locked to a specific LLM, though. You can select the model from a panel, but I don't think you can plug in your own right now, and t…

Is Copilot's Agent Mode any good, though?

Ehhh... I wouldn't use it for anything important right now. It often screws up by truncating code files then asking itself "where did all those functions go?" and having to rewrite them from scratch.

When it works, it's great though. I've used it to vibe-code some nice little desktop apps to automate things I needed and it produced way more polished UI than I would have spent the time doing, and the code is pretty much how I would have written it myself. I just set it going and go do some other task for 10 mins and come back to see what changes it made.

Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

nevertoolate wrote: post #142
steinvakt2 wrote: post #124

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I also have this feeling that I'm 2-10x more productive. But isn't it curious how a lot of devs feel this way, but no devs that I know have the experience that any of their colleagues have become 2-10x more productive?

10x means to me that i can finish a month of work in max 2 days and go cloud watching. What does it mean for you?

Sometimes 10x can mean that I start things that I would have never started before, knowing it would take a long time. Or that I can have any of the agentic stuff "explore" libs, stacks and frameworks I wanted to look at, but had no time. Or distill some vague docs and blog posts to find common use cases for tech x. And so on.

It's not always a literal 10x time for taskA w/ AI vs taskA w/o AI...

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Post by rzz3 »

rapind wrote: post #204
torginus wrote: post #147

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I think this means that GPT5 is better - you can't launch a worse model after the competitor supersedes you - you have to show that you're in the lead even if its just for a day.

Not sure that this is true. Are there a lot of people waiting anxiously to adopt the next model on the day of release and expecting some huge work advantage?

My coworkers/partners and I haven’t stopped talking about it for weeks. I’m one of them I guess, but we’ll see. The ARC graph I saw, if accurate, is really incredible.

Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by sneak »

Is it just me, or is Opus 4.1 substantially worse in Claude Code than Opus 4.0 was? I feel like I'm using Sonnet.

It's making really stupid errors and I have to work three times as much to get the same results as last week.

Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by sneak »

screye wrote: post #206
OldGreenYodaGPT wrote: post #98

Claude Code has honestly made me at least 10x more productive. I’ve burned through about 3 billion tokens and have been consistently merging 5+ PRs a day, tackling tons of tech debt, improving GitHub Actions, and making crazy progress on product work

How do you maintain high confidence in the code it generates ? My current bottleneck is having to review the huge amounts of code that these models spit out. I do TDD, use auto-linting and type-checking.... but the model makes insidious changes that are only visible on deep inspection.

You have to review your code for quality and bugs and errors now just as you did last month or last year. Did you never write bugs accidentally before?

We're all bottlenecked on reviewing now. That's a good thing.

Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by chisleu »

jzig wrote: post #10

I'm confused by how Opus is presented to be superior in nearly every way for coding purposes yet the general consensus and my own experience seem to be that Sonnet is much much better. Has anyone switched to entirely using Opus from Sonnet? Or maybe switching to Opus for certain things while using Sonnet for others?

I use opus or gemini 2.5 pro for plan mode and sonnet for act mode in Cline. https://cline.bot

It's my experience that Opus is better at solving architectural challenges where sonnet struggles.

Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by closewith »

teruakohatu wrote: post #260
generalizations wrote: post #154

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Get a subscription and use claude code - that's how you get actual reasonable economics out of it. I use claude code all day on the max subscription and maybe twice in the last two weeks have I actually hit usage limits.

> Get a subscription and use claude code I find the token/credit restrictions on Opus to be near useless even when using Claude Code. I only ever switch to it so get another model's take on the issue. Five minutes of use and I have hit the limit.

Is it a max subscription?

We have the $200 plans for work and despite only using Opus, we rarely hit the limits. CCUsage suggests the same via API would have been ~$2000 over the last month (we work 5 hours a day, 4 days a week, almost always with Claude).

Re: Claude Opus 4.1

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Post by eddythompson80 »

what wrote: post #278
cma wrote: post #256

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It's maybe the leading subscription based tool in our field, not a random SaaS tool.

They have zero need for a phone number.

Come on now. You're about to run their cli and let it send any random file on your machine to their API intentionally. Trust them a little.
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