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Claude Opus 4.7

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Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by sasipi247 »

corlinp wrote: post #194

I'm running it for the first time and this is what the thinking looks like. Opus seems highly concerned about whether or not I'm asking it to develop malware. > This is _, not malware. Continuing the brainstorming process. > Not malware — standard _ code. Continuing exploration. > Not malware. Let me check front-end components for _. > Not malware. Checking validation code and _. > Not malware. > Not malware.

I noticed this also, and was abit taken back at first...

But I think this is good thing the model checks the code, when adding new packages etc. Especially given that thousands of lines of code aren't even being read anymore.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by frankdenbow »

trueno wrote: post #455

noticing sharp uptick in "i switched to codex" replies lately. a "codex for everything" post flocking the front page on the day of the opus 4.7 release me and coworker just gave codex a 3 day pilot and it was not even close to the accuracy and ability to complete & problem solve through what we've been using claude for. are we being spammed? great. annoying. i clicked into this to read the differences and initial exp…

we arent bots because we disagree with you. I switch between codex and opus, they have their differing strengths. As many people have mentioned, opus in the past few weeks has had less than stellar results. Generally I find opus would rather stub something and do it the faster way than to do a more complete job, although its much better at front end. I've had times where I've thrown the same problem at opus 4/5 times without success and codex gets it first shot. Just my experience.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by simplyluke »

aurareturn wrote: post #38
buildbot wrote: post #12

Too late, personally after how bad 4.6 was the past week I was pushed to codex, which seems to mostly work at the same level from day to day. Just last night I was trying to get 4.6 to lookup how to do some simple tensor parallel work, and the agent used 0 web fetches and just hallucinated 17K very wrong tokens. Then the main agent decided to pretend to implement tp, and just copied the entire model to each node...

Funny because many people here were so confident that OpenAI is going to collapse because of how much compute they pre-ordered. But now it seems like it's a major strategic advantage. They're 2x'ing usage limits on Codex plans to steal CC customers and it seems to be working. I'm seeing a lot of goodwill for Codex and a ton of bad PR for CC. It seems like 90% of Claude's recent problems are strictly lack of compute r…

My standing assumption is the darling company/model will change every quarter for the foreseeable future, and everyone will be equally convinced that the hotness of the week will win the entire future.

As buyers, we all benefit from a very competitive market.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by recallingmemory »

loudmax wrote: post #416

Let's say we take Anthropic's security and alignment claims at face value, and they have models that are really good at uncovering bugs and exploiting software. What should Anthropic do in this case? Anthropic could immediately make these models widely available. The vast majority of their users just want develop non-malicious software. But some non-zero portion of users will absolutely use these models to find explo…

Couldn't we use domain records to verify that a website is our own for example with the TXT value provided by Anthropic?

Google does the same thing for verifying that a website is your own. Security checks by the model would only kick off if you're engaging in a property that you've validated.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by robeym »

Working on some research projects to test Opus 4.7.

The first thing I notice is that it never dives straight into research after the first prompt. It insists on asking follow-up questions. "I'd love to dive into researching this for you. Before I start..." The questions are usually silly, like, "What's your angle on this analysis?" It asks some form of this question as the first follow-up every time.

The second observation is "Adaptive thinking" replaces "Extended thinking" that I had with Opus 4.6. I turned Adaptive off, but I wish I had some confidence that the model is working as hard as possible (I don't want it to mysteriously limit its thinking capabilities based on what it assumes requires less thought. I'd rather control the thinking level. I liked extended thinking). I always ran research prompts with extended thinking enabled on Opus 4.6, and it gave me confidence that it was taking time to get the details right.

The third observation is it'll sit in a silent state of "Creating my research plan" for several minutes without starting to burn tokens. At first I thought this was because I had 2 tabs running a research prompt at the same time, but it later happened again when nothing else was running beside it. Perhaps this is due to high demand from several people trying to test the new model.

Overall, I feel a bit confused. It doesn't seem better than 4.6, and from a research standpoint it might be worse. It seems like it got several different "features" that I'm supposed to learn now.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by contextkso »

I've noticed it getting dumber in certain situations , can't point to it directly as of now , but seems like its hallucinating a bit more .. and ditto on the Adaptive thinking being confusing

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by agentifysh »

Will they actually give you enough usage ? Biggest complaint is that codex offers way more weekly usage. Also this means GPT 5.5 release is imminent (I suspect thats what Elephant is on OR)

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by Jcampuzano2 »

trueno wrote: post #455

noticing sharp uptick in "i switched to codex" replies lately. a "codex for everything" post flocking the front page on the day of the opus 4.7 release me and coworker just gave codex a 3 day pilot and it was not even close to the accuracy and ability to complete & problem solve through what we've been using claude for. are we being spammed? great. annoying. i clicked into this to read the differences and initial exp…

No, I assure you you are not being spammed because legitimately many people prefer codex over claude right now. I am one of those people. And if you go on tech social media spaces you'll see many prominent well known devs in open source say the same. And of course others praise claude as well.

At my job we have enterprise access to both and I used claude for months before I got access to codex. Around the time gpt-5.3-codex came out and they improved its speed I was split around 50/50. Now I spend almost 100% of my time using Codex with GPT 5.4.

I still compare outputs with claude and codex relatively frequently and personally I find I always have better results with codex. But if you prefer claude thats totally acceptable.

Re: Claude Opus 4.7

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Post by [deleted] »

simonw wrote: post #203

I'm finding the "adaptive thinking" thing very confusing, especially having written code against the previous thinking budget / thinking effort / etc modes: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/adapti... Also notable: 4.7 now defaults to NOT including a human-readable reasoning token summary in the output, you have to add "display": "summarized" to get that: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-…

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