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Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

hubraumhugo wrote: post #131

You can get your HN profile analyzed by it and it's pretty funny :) https://hn-wrapped.kadoa.com/ I'm using this to test the humor of new models.

Profile Summary

A successful tech entrepreneur who built a multi-million dollar business starting with Common Lisp, you're the rare HN user who actually practices what they preach.

Your journey from Lisp to Go to Rust mirrors your evolution from idealist to pragmatist, though you still can't help but reminisce about the magical REPL experience while complaining about JavaScript frameworks.

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Roast

You complain about AI-generated code being too complex, yet you pine for Common Lisp, a language where parentheses reproduction is the primary feature.

For someone who built a multi-million dollar business, you spend an awful lot of time telling everyone how much JavaScript and React suck. Did a React component steal your lunch money?

You've changed programming languages more often than most people change their profile pictures. At this rate, you'll be coding in COBOL by 2026 while insisting it's 'underappreciated'.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by j_maffe »

fallinditch wrote: post #171
TriangleEdge wrote: post #94

This AI race is happening so fast. Seems like it to me anyway. As a software developer/engineer I am worried about my job prospects.. time will tell. I am wondering what will happen to the west coast housing bubbles once software engineers lose their high price tags. I guess the next wave of knowledge workers will move in and take their place?

My guess is that, yes, the software development job market is being massively disrupted, but there are things you can do to come out on top: * Learn more of the entire stack, especially the backend, and devops. * Embrace the increased productivity on offer to ship more products, solo projects, etc * Be highly selective as far as possible in how you spend your productive time: being uber-effective can mean thinking an…

Do you have any specific tips for the last point? I completely agree with it and have set up a fairly robust Obsidian note taking structure that will benefit greatly from an agentic assistant. Do you use specific tools or workframe for this?

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by FergusArgyll »

crowcroft wrote: post #220
jumploops wrote: post #104

> "[..] in developing our reasoning models, we’ve optimized somewhat less for math and computer science competition problems, and instead shifted focus towards real-world tasks that better reflect how businesses actually use LLMs.” This is good news. OpenAI seems to be aiming towards "the smartest model," but in practice, LLMs are used primarily as learning aids, data transformers, and code writers. Balancing "intell…

Sometimes I wonder if there is overfitting towards benchmarks (DeepSeek is the worst for this to me). Claude is pretty consistently the chat I go back to where the responses subjectively seem better to me, regardless of where the model actually lands in benchmarks.

Ya, Claude crushes the smell test

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by Daniel_Van_Zant »

Being able to control how many tokens are spent on thinking is a game-changer. I've been building fairly complex, efficient, systems with many LLMs. Despite the advantages, reasoning models have been a no-go due to how variable the cost is, and how hard that makes it to calculate a final per-query cost for the customer. Being able to say "I know this model can always solve this problem in this many thinking tokens" and thus limiting the cost for that component is huge.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by drivers99 »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #375
jedberg wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> For someone who worked at Reddit, you sure spend a lot of time on HN. It's like leaving Facebook to spend all day on Twitter complaining about social media. Wow, so spot on it hurts!

>Your ideal tech stack is so old it qualifies for social security benefits >You're the only person who gets excited when someone mentions Trinity Desktop Environment in 2025 > You probably have more opinions about PHP's empty() function than most people have about their entire career choices

> Personal Projects: You'll finally complete that bare-metal Forth interpreter for Raspberry Pi

I was just looking into that again as of yesterday (I didn't post about it here yesterday, just to be clear; it picked up on that from some old comments I must have posted).

> Profile summary: [...] You're the person who not only remembers what a CGA adapter is but probably still has one in working condition in your basement, right next to your collection of programming books from 1985.

Exactly the case, in a working IBM PC, except I don't have a basement. :)

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by throwaway454812 »

anotherpaulg wrote: post #331

Claude 3.7 Sonnet scored 60.4% on the aider polyglot leaderboard [0], WITHOUT USING THINKING. Tied for 3rd place with o3-mini-high. Sonnet 3.7 has the highest non-thinking score, taking that title from Sonnet 3.5. Aider 0.75.0 is out with support for 3.7 Sonnet [1]. Thinking support and thinking benchmark results coming soon. [0] https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards/ [1] https://aider.chat/HISTORY.html#aider-v0750

Any chance you can add support for Vertex AI Sonnet 3.7, which looks like it's available now? Thank you!

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by mvdtnz »

k8sToGo wrote: post #368
slantedview wrote: post #252

As a Claude Pro user, one of the biggest problems I have with day to day use of Sonnet is running out of tokens, and having to wait several hours. Would this new deep thinking capability just hit this problem faster?

Have you tried just using the API and pay as you go?

That doesn't answer his very specific question.

Re: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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Post by numba888 »

This was nice. I passed it jseessort algorithm. If you remember discussed here recently. Claude 3.7 generated C++ code. Non-working. But in few steps it gave extensive test, then fix. It looks to be working after a couple of minutes. It's 5-6 times slower than std::sort. Result is better than I've got from o3-mini-hard. Not fair comparison actually as prompting was different.
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