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Claude Opus 4.6

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Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by jama211 »

RohMin wrote: post #212
azinman2 wrote: post #110

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Why does it matter if Claude Code opens in 3-4 seconds if everything you do with it can take many seconds to minutes? Seems irrelevant to me.

I guess with ~50 years of CPU advancements, 3-4 seconds for a TUI to open makes it seem like we lost the plot somewhere along the way.

So it doesn’t matter at all except to your sensibilities. Sounds to me that they simply are much better at prioritisation than your average HN user, who’d have taken forever to release it but at least the terminal interface would be snappy…

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by jama211 »

mbesto wrote: post #339
azinman2 wrote: post #110

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Why does it matter if Claude Code opens in 3-4 seconds if everything you do with it can take many seconds to minutes? Seems irrelevant to me.

This is exactly the type of thing that AI code writers don't do well - understand the prioritization of feature development. Some developers say 3-4 seconds are important to them, others don't. Who decides what the truth is? A human? ClawdBot?

The humans in the company (correctly) realised that a few seconds to open basically the most powerful productivity agent ever made so they can focus on fast iteration of features is a totally acceptable trade off priority wise. Who would think differently???

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by jama211 »

bdangubic wrote: post #528
thehamkercat wrote: post #45

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Same with opencode and gemini, it's disgusting Codex (by openai ironically) seems to be the fastest/most-responsive, opens instantly and is written in rust but doesn't contain that many features Claude opens in around 3-4 seconds Opencode opens in 2 seconds Gemini-cli is an abomination which opens in around 16 second for me right now, and in 8 seconds on a fresh install Codex takes 50ms for reference... -- If their m…

50ms to open and then 2hrs to solve a simple problem vs 4s to open and then 5m to solve a problem, eh?

lol right? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here. Why do people here want to prioritise the most pointless things? Oh right it’s because they’re bitter and their reaction is mostly emotional…

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by sutterd »

I thought Opus 4.5 was an incredible quantum leap forward. I have used Opus 4.6 for a few hours and I hate it. Opus 4.5 would work interactively with me and ask questions. I loved that it would not do things you didn't ask it to do. If it found a bug, it would tell me and ask me if I wanted to fix it. One time there was an obvious one and I didn't want it to fix it. It left the bug. A lot of modesl could not have done that. The problem here is that sometimes when model think is a bug, they are breaking the code buyu fixing it. In my limited usage of Opus 4.6, it is not asking me clarifying questions and anything it comes across that it doesn't like, it changes. It is not working with me. The magic is gone. It feels just like those other models I had used.

I will try again tomorrow and see how it goes.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by shimman »

jama211 wrote: post #719
krona wrote: post #127

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Sounds like a web developer defined the solution a year before they knew what the problem was.

Nah. It’s just web development languages are a better fit for agentic coding presently. They weighed the pros and cons, they’re not stupid.

Of course they can be stupid, hubris is a real thing and humans fail all the time.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by anupamchugh »

flutas wrote: post #449
bityard wrote: post #329

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If it works anything like the memories on Copilot (which have been around for quite a while), you need to be pretty explicit about it being a permanent preference for it to be stored as a memory. For example, "Don't use emoji in your response" would only be relevant for the current chat session, whereas this is more sticky: "I never want to see emojis from you, you sub-par excuse for a roided-out spreadsheet"

It's a lot more iffy than that IME. It's very happy to throw a lot into the memory, even if it doesn't make sense.

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Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by sutterd »

atonse wrote: post #687

Wow, I have been using Open 4.6 and for the last 15 minutes, and it's already made two extremely stupid mistakes... like misunderstanding basic instructions and editing the file in a very silly, basic way. Pretty bad. Never seen this with any model before. The one bone I'll throw it was that I was asking it to edit its own MCP configs. So maybe it got thoroughly confused? I dunno what's going on, I'm going to give it…

I am also _not_ happy. I tried the `/model` command and I could not switch back to Opus 4.5. However, the command line option did let me set Opus 4.5:

``` claude --model claude-opus-4-5-20251101 ```

I will probably work with Opus 4.5 tomorrow to get some work done and maybe try 4.6 again later.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by ed_mercer »

jama211 wrote: post #712
blibble wrote: post #83

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Microsoft's products are also extremely successful they're also total garbage

Well there you have it, proof you’re not being reasonable. Microsoft’s products annoy HN users but they are absolutely not total garbage. They’re highly functional and valuable and if they weren’t they truely wouldn’t be used, they’re just flawed.

You should look at some Copilot reviews.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

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…

I really like that Claude feels transactional. It answers my question quickly and concisely and then shuts up. I don't need the LLM I use to act like my best friend.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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mhink wrote: post #703
irishcoffee wrote: post #597

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The top comment is about finding basterized latin words from childrens books. The future is here.

> basterized And yet, it's still somewhat better than the Hacker News comment using bastardized English words.

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