I tested this feature out today, applying the same prompt and CSV data to both Claude Opus 4.1 and GPT-5-Thinking. They both chugged away writing Pandas code and produced similar output. It's nice to have another option for data analysis to act as a second opinion on GPT, if nothing else.
Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
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Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#42They need to focus on fixing reliability first. Their systems constantly go down and it appears they are having to quantise the models to keep up with demand, reducing intelligence significantly. New features like this feel pointless when the underlying model is becoming unusable.
Anthropic claims that they don't degrade models under load, and the performance issues were a result of a system error: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c That being said, they still have capacity issues on any day of the week that ends in Y. No clue how long would that take to resolve.
Then check the news again. They already admitted that due to bugs model output was degraded for over a month
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#43They need to focus on fixing reliability first. Their systems constantly go down and it appears they are having to quantise the models to keep up with demand, reducing intelligence significantly. New features like this feel pointless when the underlying model is becoming unusable.
This can't be understated. I started using it heavily earlier this summer and it felt like magic. Someone signing up now based on how I described my personal experiences with it then would think I was out of my mind . For technical tasks it has been a net negative for me for the last several weeks. (Speaking of both Claude Code and the desktop app, both Sonnet and Opus >=4, on the Max plan.)
"can't be overstated", you mean
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#44ChatGPT has been able to do this for a long time. It can even create a whole zipped directory tree of files at once.
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
This can't be understated. I started using it heavily earlier this summer and it felt like magic. Someone signing up now based on how I described my personal experiences with it then would think I was out of my mind . For technical tasks it has been a net negative for me for the last several weeks. (Speaking of both Claude Code and the desktop app, both Sonnet and Opus >=4, on the Max plan.)
Have you considered perhaps that you are, indeed, out of your mind? Or more precisely, that you could be rationalizing what is essentially a random process? Based on the discussions here it seems that every model is either about to be great or was great in the past but now is not. Sucks for those of us who are stuck in the now , though.
It seems plausible enough that they're trying to squeeze as much out of their hardware as possible and getting the balance wrong. As prices for hardware capable of running local LLMs drop and local models improve, this will become less prevalent and the option of running your own will become more widespread, probably killing this kind of service outside of enterprise. Even if it doesn't kill that service, it'll be _considerably_ better to be operating your own as you have control over what is actually running.
On that note, I strongly recommend qwen3:4b. It is _bonkers_ how good it is, especially considering how relatively tiny it is.
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
This can't be understated. I started using it heavily earlier this summer and it felt like magic. Someone signing up now based on how I described my personal experiences with it then would think I was out of my mind . For technical tasks it has been a net negative for me for the last several weeks. (Speaking of both Claude Code and the desktop app, both Sonnet and Opus >=4, on the Max plan.)
Have you considered perhaps that you are, indeed, out of your mind? Or more precisely, that you could be rationalizing what is essentially a random process? Based on the discussions here it seems that every model is either about to be great or was great in the past but now is not. Sucks for those of us who are stuck in the now , though.
"that every model is either about to be great or was great in the past but now is not"
FWIW, Codex-CLI w/ ChatGPT5 medium is great right now. Objectively accelerating me. Not a coding god like some posters would have it, but overall freeing up time for me. Observably.
Assuming I haven't had since-cured delusions, the same was true for Claude Code, but isn't any more.
Concrete supporting evidence: From time to time, I have coding CLIs port older projects of varying (but small-ish) sizes from JS to TS. Claude Code used to do well on that. Repeatedly. I did another test last Sunday, and it dug a momentous hole for itself that even liberal sprinkling of 'as unknown' everywhere couldn't solve. Codex managed both the ab-initio port and was able to undig from CC's massive hole abandoned mid-port.
So I'd say the evidence points somewhat against random process, given repeated testing shows clear signal both of past capability and of recent loss of capability.
The idea that it's a "random" process is misguided.
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#47Maybe one day Claude can rewrite its interface to be more accessible to blind people like me.
Curious what a11y issues you see with Claude? I use it a remarkable amount and haven't found any showstoppers. Web interface and Claude Code.
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anthropic claims that they don't degrade models under load, and the performance issues were a result of a system error: https://status.anthropic.com/incidents/72f99lh1cj2c That being said, they still have capacity issues on any day of the week that ends in Y. No clue how long would that take to resolve.
Not nitpicking, but they said: > we never intentionally degrade model quality as a result of demand or other factors Fully giving them the benefit of the doubt, I still think that still allows for a scenario like "we may [switch to quantized models|tune parameters], but our internal testing showed that these interventions didn't materially affect end user experience". I hate to parse their words in this way, because…
"or other factors" is pretty catch-all in my opinion.
> I don't know how they could have phrased it that closed the door on this concern
Agreed. A full legal document would probably be the only way to convince everyone.
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#49Maybe one day Claude can rewrite its interface to be more accessible to blind people like me.
Anthropic are looking to make money. They need to make absolutely absurd amounts of money to afford the R&D expenses they've already incurred. Features get prioritized based on how much money they might make. Unless forced to by regulation (or maybe social pressure on the executives, but that really only comes from their same class instead of the general public these days) smaller groups of customers get served last. There aren't that many blind people, so there's not very much profit incentive to serve blind people. Unless they're actually violating the ADA or another law or regulation, and can't bribe the regulators for less than the cost of fines or fixing the issue, I'd not expect any improvement.
Re: Claude now has access to a server-side container environment
#50Is it able to process a prompt on each file in a folder-full of files and then return the collated results?
That's the functionality which I could use for my day job, but I'm not finding an LLM which directly affords that capability (without programming or other steps which are difficult on my work computer).