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What does Opus do extra?
It's a much larger, more capable LLM than Claude Sonnet.
I mean day to day. How is the coding experience different?
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> I think it's pretty different from buying shoes. Shoe shopping is pretty complex, more so than trialing an AI model in my opinion. Are you a construction worker, a banker, a cashier or a driver? Are you walking 5 miles everyday or mostly sedentary? Do you require steel toed shoes? How long are you expecting them to last and what are you willing to pay? Are you going to wear them on long runs or take them river kaya…
Ya know, in the over half a century I've been on this planet, choosing a new pair of shoes is so low on my 'life's little annoyances' list that it doesn't even rise above the noise of all the stupid random things which actually do annoy me. Maybe the problem is I don't take shoes seriously enough? Something to work on...
And in all the years that LLMs have been available I've yet to find a subscription plan confusing.
Re: Claude Opus 4.1
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Every time that Sonnet is acting like it has brain damage (which is once or twice a day), I switch to Opus and it seems to sort things out pretty fast. This is unscientific anicdata though, and it could just be that switching models (any model) would have worked.
This is a great use case for sub-agents IMO. By default, sub-agents use sonnet. You can have opus orchestrate the various agents and get (close to) the best of both worlds.
AFAIK subagents inherit the default model since v1.0.64. At least that's the case for me with the Claude Code SDK — not providing a specific model makes subagents use claude-opus-4-1-20250805.
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What's the average programmer? Is it someone who likes CLI tools? Or who likes IDE integration? Different strokes for different folks and surely the average programmer understands what environment they will be most comfortable in.
> Different strokes for different folks and surely the average programmer understands what environment they will be most comfortable in. That's a silly claim to me, we're talking about a completely new environment where you prompt an AI to develop code, and therefore an "average programmer" is unlikely to have any meaningful experience or intuition with this flow. That is exactly what GP is talking about - where does…
To me that's the silly argument. How many different tools have you ever used? New build system? New linter? How did you know if you wanted to run those on the command line or in your IDE?
And it seems the story you shared sort of proves the point: the web interface worked fine for you and you didn't need to question it until someone was needlessly rude about it.
Re: Claude Opus 4.1
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This is a great use case for sub-agents IMO. By default, sub-agents use sonnet. You can have opus orchestrate the various agents and get (close to) the best of both worlds.
Is there a way to get persistent sub-agents? I'd love to have a bunch of YAML files in my repository, one for each sub-agent, and have those automatically used across all Claude Code instances I have on multiple machines (I dev on laptop and desktop), or across the team.
In my experience the best use for subagents is saving context.
Example: you need to review some code to see if it has proper test coverage.
If you use the "main" context, it'll waste tokens on reading the codebase and running tests to see coverage results.
But if you launch an agent (a subprocess pretty much), it can use a "disposable" context to do that and only return with the relevant data - which bits of the code need more tests.
Now you can either use the main context to implement the tests or if you're feeling really fancy launch another sub-agent to do it.
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When people post this stuff, it's like, are you also confused that Nike sells shoes AND shorts AND shirts, and there's different colors and skus for each article of clothing, and sometimes they sell direct to consumer and other times to stores and to universities, and also there's sales and promotions, etc, etc? It's almost as if companies sell more than one product. Why is this the top comment on so many threads abo…
Not sure is this is sarcasm I'm assuming not. You're comparing well understood products that are wildly different to products with code names. Even someone who has never wore a t-shirt will see it on a mannequin and know where it goes. I'm sorry but I cannot tell what the difference is between sonnet and opus. Unless one is for music... So in this case you read the docs. Which is, in your analogy, you going to the Ni…
Surely anyone interested in taking out a Claude subscription knows broadly what they're going to use an LLM for.
It's more like going to the Nike store and asking about the difference between the Vaporfly 3 and the Pegasus 41. I know they're all shoes and therefore go on my feet, but I don't know what the difference is unless one is better for riding horses?
Re: Claude Opus 4.1
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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.
There are a lot of fraudsters out there who will happily create thousands of accounts with valid CCs that will fail on first actual charge.[0]
I wouldn't be surprised if asking for a phone number lowers the fraud rate enough to compensate for the added friction.
[0] Incidentally, this is also why many AI API providers ask for your money upfront (buy credits) unless you're big enough and/or have existing relationship with them.
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Github Copilot and Claude code are not exactly competitors. Github Copilot is autocomplete, highly useful if you use VS Code, but if you are using e.g. Jetbrains then you have other options. Copilot comes with a bunch of other stuff that I rarely use. Claude code is project-wide editing, from the CLI. They complement each other well. As far as I'm concerned the utility of the AI-focused editors has been diminished by…
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…
I didn't mean it doesn't attempt to compete, I mean it doesn't actually compete. Claude code for agents, Copilot for autocomplete (depending on your editor/IDE).
For single-line autocomplete, which is how I use it, pretty much anything will do the job. I use Copilot only because it integrates well with VS Code. I find the other features to be inferior.
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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.
It seems for Opus the Max plan is almost always needed for being useful