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Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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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.

fyi in settings, you can configure chatGPT to do the same

where?

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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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.

I’ve had good success with Claude building snappy TUIs in Rust with Ratatui.

It’s not obvious to me that there’d be any benefit of using TypeScript and React instead, especially none that makes up for the huge downsides compared to Rust in a terminal environment.

Seems to me the problem is more likely the skills of the engineers, not Claude’s capabilities.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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I'm finding it quite good at doing what it thinks it should do, but noticably worse at understanding what I'm telling it to do. Anyone else? I'm both impressed and very disappointed so far.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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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…

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.

Some people[0] like their tools to be well engineered. This is not unique to software.

[0] Perhaps everyone who actually takes pride in their craft and doesn’t prioritise shitty hustle culture and making money over everything else.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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CC has >6000 open issues, despite their bot auto-culling them after 60 days of inactivity. It was ~5800 when I looked just a few days ago so they seem to be accelerating towards some kind of bug singularity.

Insane to think that a relatively simple CLI tool has so many open issues...

It's far from simple

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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On benchmarks GPT 5.2 was roughly equivalent to Opus 4.5 but most people who've used both for SWE stuff would say that Opus 4.5 is/was noticeably better

I pretty consistently heard people say Codex was much slower but produced better results, making it better for long-running work in the background, and worse for more interactive development.

Codex is also much less transparent about its reasoning. With Claude, you see a fairly detailed chain-of-thought, so you can intervene early if you notice the model veering in the wrong direction or going in circles.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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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 suspect it very much depends on the "generic research topics", but in my experience one thing that Claude is good at is in-depth research because it can keep going for such a long time; I've had research sessions go well over an hour, producing very detailed reports with lots of sources etc. Gemini Deep Research is nowhere even close.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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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.

Quickly and concisely? In my experience, Claude drivels on and on forever. The answers are always far longer than Gemini's, which is mostly fine for coding but annoying for planning/questions.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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use AI to rewrite all the spells from all the books, then try to see if AI can detect the rewritten ones. This will ensure it's not pulling from it's trained data set.

That won't help. The AI replacing them will probably miss the same ones as the AI finding them.

I think the question was if it will still find 49 out of 50 if they have been replaced.
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