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Claude Sonnet 4.6
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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
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Which plan did you choose? I am subscribed to both and would love to stick with Claude only, but Claude's usage limits are so tiny compared to ChatGPT's that it often feels like a rip-off.
Pro. At $17 per month, it is cheaper than ChatGPT's $20. I've just switched so haven't run into constraints yet.
The usage limits for Codex CLI vs Claude Code aren't even in the same universe. Maybe it's not a problem on the web, but I never use the actual chatbots so I have no idea tbh.
You get vastly more usage at highest reasoning level for GPT 5.3 on the $20/mo Codex plan, I can't even recall the last time I've hit a rate limit. Compared to how often I would burn through the session quota of Opus 4.6 in I don't trust any of these VC funded AI labs or consider one more or less evil than the other, but I get a crazy amount of value from the cheap Codex plan (and can freely use it with OpenCode) so that's good enough for me. If and when that changes, I'll switch again, having brand loyalty or believing a company follows an actual ethical framework based on words or vibes just seems crazy to me.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#593Why is the system "card" 140 pages long! Was it generated by LLM too?
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#594Earlier quoted context omitted.
Their goal is to monopolize labor for anything that has to do with i/o on a computer, which is way more than SWE. Its simple, this technology literally cannot create new jobs it simply can cause one engineer (or any worker whos job has to do with computer i/o) to do the work of 3, therefore allowing you to replace workers (and overwork the ones you keep). Companies don't need "more work" half the "features"/"products…
The price of oil at the price of water (ecology apart) should be a good thing. Automation should be, obviously, a good thing, because more is produced with less labor. What it says of ourselves and our politics that so many people (me included) are afraid of it? In a sane world, we would realize that, in a post-work world, the owner of the robots have all the power, so the robots should be owned in common. The soluti…
What do we “need” more of? Here in France we need more doctors, more nurseries, more teachers… I don’t see AI helping much there in short to middle term (with teachers all research points to AI making it massively worse even)
Globally I think we need better access to quality nutrition and more affordable medicine. Generally cheaper energy.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#595Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is the elephant in the room nobody wants to talk about. AI is dead in the water for the supposed mass labor replacement that will happen unless this is fixed. Summarize some text while I supervise the AI = fine and a useful productivity improvement, but doesn’t replace my job. Replace me with an AI to make autonomous decisions outside in the wild and liability-ridden chaos ensues. No company in their right mind…
There’s a middle road where AI replaces half the juniors or entry level roles, the interns and the bottom rung of the org chart. In marketing, an AI can effortlessly perform basic duties, write email copy, research, etc. Same goes for programming, graphic design, translation, etc. The results will be looked over by a senior member, but it’s already clear that a role with 3 YOE or less could easily be substituted with…
Not really though:
1. Companies like savings but they’re not dumb enough to just wipe out junior roles and shoot themselves in the foot for future generations of company leaders. Business leaders have been vocal on this point and saying it’s terrible thinking.
2. In the US and Europe the work most ripe for automation and AI was long since “offshored” to places like India. If AI does have an impact it will wipe out the India tech and BPO sector before it starts to have a major impact on roles in the US and Europe.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#596Earlier quoted context omitted.
Looking at the responses below it's interesting how binary they are. It's classic hallucinations style where it's flopping between two alternatives but which ever one it picks it's absolutely confident about.
You can always make it go back and forth with "Are you sure?". The fact that these are still issues ~6 years into this tech is bewildering.
...is it though? Fundamentally, these are statistical models with harnesses that try to conform them to deterministic expectations via narrow goal massaging.
They're not improving on the underlying technology. Just iterating on the massaging and perhaps improved data accuracy, if at all. It's still a mishmash of code and cribbed scifi stories. So, of course it's going to hit loops because it's not fundamentally conscience.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#597Earlier quoted context omitted.
I also use Haiku daily and it's OK. One app is trading simulation algorithm in TypeScript (it implemented bayesian optimisation for me, optimised algorithm to use worker threads). Another one is CRUD app (NextJS, now switched to Vue).
Are you saying Haiku is better than Sonnet for some coding use? I've used Sonnet 4.5 for python and basic web development (pure JS, CCS & HTML) and had assumed Haiku wouldn't be very good for coding.
I'm saying Haiku isn't that bad, it's good enough for my needs, and it's the cheapest one. Maybe it's because I'm giving it small, well defined tasks.
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#598Earlier quoted context omitted.
The most exciting part isn't necessarily the ceiling raising though that's happening, but the floor rising while costs plummet. Getting Opus-level reasoning at Sonnet prices/latency is what actually unlocks agentic workflows. We are effectively getting the same intelligence unit for half the compute every 6-9 months.
> We are effectively getting the same intelligence unit for half the compute every 6-9 months. Something something ... Altman's law? Amodei's law? Needs a name.
How about More's law - because we keep getting "more" compute at a lower cost?
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#599Took me a while to create the pelican because I was busy adding Opus/Sonnet 4.6 support to my plugin for https://llm.datasette.io/ - pelican now available here, it's not quite as good as the Opus 4.6 one but does look equivalent to the Opus 4.5 one - and it has a snazzy top hat. https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/claude-sonnet-46/
Re: Claude Sonnet 4.6
#600Earlier quoted context omitted.
The price of oil at the price of water (ecology apart) should be a good thing. Automation should be, obviously, a good thing, because more is produced with less labor. What it says of ourselves and our politics that so many people (me included) are afraid of it? In a sane world, we would realize that, in a post-work world, the owner of the robots have all the power, so the robots should be owned in common. The soluti…
What do we “need” more of? Here in France we need more doctors, more nurseries, more teachers… I don’t see AI helping much there in short to middle term (with teachers all research points to AI making it massively worse even) Globally I think we need better access to quality nutrition and more affordable medicine. Generally cheaper energy.
Isn’t the end game that all the displaced SWEs give up their cushy, flexible job and get retrained as nurses?