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I don't see the point nor the hype for these models anymore. Until the price is reduced significantly, I don't see the gain. They've been able to solve most tasks just fine for the past year or so. The only limiting factor is price.
As with Opus 4.6, using the beta 1M context window incurs a 2x input cost and 1.5x output cost when going over >200K tokens: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing Opus 4.6 in Claude Code has been absolutely lousy with solving problems within its current context limit so if Sonnet 4.6 is able to do long-context problems (which would be roughly the same price of base Opus 4.6), then that may actually…
Many people have reported Opus 4.6 is a step back from Opus 4.5 - that 4.6 is consuming 5-10x as many tokens as 4.5 to accomplish the same task: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23706 I haven't seen a response from the Anthropic team about it. I can't help but look at Sonnet 4.6 in the same light, and want to stick with 4.5 across the board until this issue is acknowledged and resolved.
I just wouldn’t call it a regression for my use case, i’m pretty happy with it.
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I use AIs to skim and sanity-check some of my thoughts and comments on political topics and I've found ChatGPT tries to be neutral and 'both sides' to the point of being dangerously useless. Like where Gemini or Claude will look up the info I'm citing and weigh the arguments made ChatGPT will actually sometimes omit parts of or modify my statement if it wants to advocate for a more "neutral" understanding of reality.…
> politically aligned AI company Like grok/xAI you mean?
My concern is more over time if the federal government takes a more active role in trying to guide corporate behavior to align with moral or political goals. I think that's already occurring with the current administration but over a longer period of time if that ramps up and AI is woven into more things it could become much more harmful.
Just used Sonnet 4.6 to vibe code this top-down shooter browser game, and deployed it online quickly using Manus. Would love to hear feedback and suggestions from you all on how to improve it. Also, please post your high scores! https://apexgame-2g44xn9v.manus.space
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Put of curiosity, does the firewall block because the company doesn’t want internal data ever hitting a 3rd party LLM?
They blanket banned any AI stuff that's not pre-approved. If I go to chatgpt.com it asks me if I'm sure. I wish they had not banned Claude unfortunately when they were evaluating LLMs I wasn't using Claude yet so I couldnt pipe up. I only use ChatGPT free tier and to ask things that I can't find on Google because Google made their search engine terrible over the years.
Many people have reported Opus 4.6 is a step back from Opus 4.5 - that 4.6 is consuming 5-10x as many tokens as 4.5 to accomplish the same task: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/23706 I haven't seen a response from the Anthropic team about it. I can't help but look at Sonnet 4.6 in the same light, and want to stick with 4.5 across the board until this issue is acknowledged and resolved.
I think this depends on what reasoning level your Claude Code is set to. Go to /models, select opus, and the dim text at the bottom will tell you the reasoning level. High reasoning is a big difference versus 4.5. 4.6 high uses a lot of tokens for even small tasks, and if you have a large codebase it will fill almost all context then compact often.
I always grew up hearing “competition is good for the consumer.” But I never really internalized how good fierce battles for market share are. The amount of competition in a space is directly proportional to how good the results are for consumers.
That level of internal fierce competition is a massive reason why they are beating us so badly on cost-effectiveness and innovation.
I’m voting with my dollars by having cancelled my ChatGPT subscription and instead subscribing to Claude. Google needs stiff competition and OpenAI isn’t the camp I’m willing to trust. Neither is Grok. I’m glad Anthropic’s work is at the forefront and they appear, at least in my estimation, to have the strongest ethics.
Anthropic (for the Superbowl) made ads about not having ads. They cannot be trusted either.