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Claude 2.1

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Re: Claude 2.1

#81

I would love to use their API but I can never get anyone to respond to me. It's like they have no real interest in being a developer platform. Has anyone gotten their vague application approved?

We got access soon after the API was announced and have happily been using Claude Instant in production for a couple of months now. It may have helped that our use case was a good match for their capabilities.

Re: Claude 2.1

#82
post #19

For coding it is still 10x worse than gpt4. I asked it to write a simple database sync function and it gives me tons of pseudocode like `//sync object with best practices`. When I ask it to give me real code it forgets tons of key aspects.

Except: you can feed it an entire programming language manual, all the docs for all the modules you want to use, and _then_ it's stunningly good, whipping chatgpt4 that same 10x.

Can you just tell it to focus on a particular language and have it go find the manuals? If it is so easy to add manuals, maybe they should just make options to do that for you.

Re: Claude 2.1

#83

I would love to use their API but I can never get anyone to respond to me. It's like they have no real interest in being a developer platform. Has anyone gotten their vague application approved?

Howdy, CISO of Anthropic here. I'm not sure what happened in your case but please reach out to support@ and mention my name; we'll respond ASAP.

Re: Claude 2.1

#84
The documentation for system prompts is setting off all of my prompt injection red flags: https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/how-to-use-system-pro...

I guess that design is at least honest: OpenAI field the system prompt in a separate fragment of JSON, but it all gets concatenated back together (with some magic delimiter tokens) when it's fed to the underlying model.

Re: Claude 2.1

#85
post #19

For coding it is still 10x worse than gpt4. I asked it to write a simple database sync function and it gives me tons of pseudocode like `//sync object with best practices`. When I ask it to give me real code it forgets tons of key aspects.

Except: you can feed it an entire programming language manual, all the docs for all the modules you want to use, and _then_ it's stunningly good, whipping chatgpt4 that same 10x.

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Re: Claude 2.1

#86

Although we're not using Claude in production (yet), it's a regular part of our testing when we build new features with LLMs. Part of the reason why we haven't used it (yet) is because OpenAI had more certifications faster, so we went to market with them. And their API has just gotten better and more reliable ever since, and it's cheap. But now that Claude is in AWS Bedrock that opens up some things for us that were…

Makes sense as claude instant is likely better than 3.5

Re: Claude 2.1

#87
post #46

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It's awful. 9/10 of things I ask Claud, I get denied because it crosses some kind of imaginary ethical boundary that's completely irrelevant.

Interesting! I use the APIs for various NLP tasks and I have never had it deny generating answers.

Maybe the scope of the tasks is different, but I've tried to have it do things like analyze a chat app export in order to help come up with marketing content and it wouldn't do it, because it's "unethical". I've also had similar friction testing it for threat intel related tasks as well.

Re: Claude 2.1

#88
I want to like Claude, but given their governance structure looks a lot like that of OpenAI, I wonder how stable it will be as a platform.

Re: Claude 2.1

#89
post #51

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Except: you can feed it an entire programming language manual, all the docs for all the modules you want to use, and _then_ it's stunningly good, whipping chatgpt4 that same 10x.

Gpt4 has 128k context length now.

gpt4 turbo

Re: Claude 2.1

#90
post #61

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For the sake of pedantry, I believe that Racket thinks it's separate to Scheme now, history and similarity notwithstanding.

I usually say Racket Scheme because probably nobody has heard of Racket - really a niche language. You can choose between numerous language types, and Scheme is one of them. You are correct, Racket is kind of a language creation tool now.

Racket brings back memories from Uni
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