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Claude Opus 4.6

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Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by greenavocado »

replwoacause wrote: post #626

I feel like I can't even try this on the Pro plan because Anthropic has conditioned me to understand that even chatting lightly with the Opus model blows up usage and locks me out. So if I would normally use Sonnet 4.5 for a day's worth of work but I wake up and ask Opus a couple of questions, I might as well just forget about doing anything with Claude for the rest of the day lol. But so far I haven't had this issue…

That's why you use Opus for detailed planning docs and weaker models for implementation & RAG for more focused implementation

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by replwoacause »

simonw wrote: post #50
Someone1234 wrote: post #19

Does anyone with more insight into the AI/LLM industry happen to know if the cost to run them in normal user-workflows is falling? The reason I'm asking is because "agent teams" while a cool concept, it largely constrained by the economics of running multiple LLM agents (i.e. plans/API calls that make this practical at scale are expensive). A year or more ago, I read that both Anthropic and OpenAI were losing money o…

The cost per token served has been falling steadily over the past few years across basically all of the providers. OpenAI dropped the price they charged for o3 to 1/5th of what it was in June last year thanks to "engineers optimizing inferencing", and plenty of other providers have found cost savings too. Turns out there was a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of inference optimization that hadn't been plucked yet. >…

My experience trying to use Opus 4.5 on the Pro plan has been terrible. It blows up my usage very very fast. I avoid it altogether now. Yes, I know they warn about this, but it's comically fast how quickly it happens.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by sanxiyn »

pdntspa wrote: post #472
nerdsniper wrote: post #286

Earlier quoted context omitted.

90-98% of the time I want the LLM to only have the knowledge I gave it in the prompt. I'm actually kind of scared that I'll wake up one day and the web interface for ChatGPT/Opus/Gemini will pull information from my prior chats.

They already do this I've had claude reference prior conversations when I'm trying to get technical help on thing A, and it will ask me if this conversation is because of thing B that we talked about in the immediate past

You can disable this at Settings > Capabilities > Memory > Search and reference chats.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by Trasmatta »

ck_one wrote: post #562
golfer wrote: post #560

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's lots of websites that list the spells. It's well documented. Could Claude simply be regurgitating knowledge from the web? Example: https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spells

It didn't use web search. But for sure it has some internal knowledge already. It's not a perfect needle in the hay stack problem but gemini flash was much worse when I tested it last time.

Do the same experiment in the Claude web UI. And explicitly turn web searches off. It got almost all of them for me over a couple of prompts. That stuff is already in its training data.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by Kye »

6thbit wrote: post #387
simonw wrote: post #40

The bicycle frame is a bit wonky but the pelican itself is great: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a6806ce41b4c721e240a4548ecdbe...

do you have a gif? i need an evolving pelican gif

A pelican GIF in a Pelican(TM) MP4 container.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by replwoacause »

greenavocado wrote: post #631
replwoacause wrote: post #626

I feel like I can't even try this on the Pro plan because Anthropic has conditioned me to understand that even chatting lightly with the Opus model blows up usage and locks me out. So if I would normally use Sonnet 4.5 for a day's worth of work but I wake up and ask Opus a couple of questions, I might as well just forget about doing anything with Claude for the rest of the day lol. But so far I haven't had this issue…

That's why you use Opus for detailed planning docs and weaker models for implementation & RAG for more focused implementation

Exactly. I barely had a chance to kick the tires the couple of times I did this before it exploded my usage. I don’t just chat with it casually. The questions I asked were apart of an overall planning strategy which was never allowed to get off the ground on my tiny Pro plan.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by jmalicki »

HPMOR wrote: post #623
jmalicki wrote: post #583

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At $100k/yr the joke that AI means "actual Indians" starts to make a lot more sense... it is cheaper than the typical US SWE, but more than a lot of global SWEs.

No - because the AI will be super human. No human even at $1mm a year would be competitive with a $100k/yr corresponding AI subscription. See people get confused. They think you can charge __less__ for software because it's automation. The truth is you can charge MORE, because it's high quality and consistent, once the output is good. Software is worth MORE than a corresponding human, not less.

I am unsure if you're joking or not, but you do have a point. But it's not about quality it's about supply and demand. There are a ton of variables moving at once here and who knows where the equilibrium is.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by khendron »

Squarex wrote: post #431
legitster wrote: post #72

I'm still not sure I understand Anthropic's general strategy right now. They are doing these broad marketing programs trying to take on ChatGPT for "normies". And yet their bread and butter is still clearly coding. Meanwhile, Claude's general use cases are... fine. For generic research topics, I find that ChatGPT and Gemini run circles around it: in the depth of research, the type of tasks it can handle, and the qual…

Claude sucks at non English languages. Gemini and ChatGPT are much better. Grok is the worst. I am a native Czech speaker and Claude makes up words and Grok sometimes respond in Russian. So while I love it for coding, it’s unusable for general purpose for me.

Claude is helping me learn French right now. I am using it as a supplementary tutor for a class I am taking. I have caught it in a couple of mistakes, but generally it seems to be working pretty well.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by kmod »

I think it's interesting that they dropped the date from the API model name, and it's just called "claude-opus-4-6", vs the previous was "claude-opus-4-5-20251101". This isn't an alias like "claude-opus-4-5" was, it's the actual model name. I think this means they're comfortable with bumping the version number if they want to release a revision.
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