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Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Looking at the chart here, it seems like Sonnet 4 was already better than GPT-5-codex in the SWE verified benchmark. However, my subjective personal experience was GPT-5-codex was far better at complex problems than Claude Code.

My subjective personal experience is the exact opposite of yours, GPT-5-codex is super slow and the results are mediocre at best. I would probably stop using AI for coding if I was forced to use GPT-5-codex.

You need to give it clear instructions on what to implement

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

But where is the training set of good pelicans on bikes coming from? You think they have people jigging them up internally?

Assuming they updated the crawled training data, just having a bunch of examples of specifically pelicans on bicycles from other models is likely to make a difference.

But then how does the quality increase? Normally we hear that when models are trained on the output of other models the style becomes very muted and various other issues start to appear. But this probably the best pelicans on a bicycle I've ever seen, by quite some margin.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Opposite for me…5-codex high ran out of tokens extremely quickly and didn’t adhere as well to the agents.md as Claude did to the Claude.md, perhaps because it insists on writing extremely complicated bash scripts or whole python programs to execute what should be simple commands.

Codex was a miserable experience for me until I learned to compact after every feature. Now it is a cut above CC, although the latter still has an edge at TODO scaffolding and planning.

/new (codex) or /clear (claude code) are much better than compact after every feature, but of course if there is context you need to retain you should put it (or have the agent put it) in either claude/agents.md or a work log file or some other file.

/compact is helping you by reducing crap in your context but you can go further. And try to watch % context remaining and not go below 50% if possible - learn to choose tasks that don't require an amount of context the models can't handle very well.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Looking at the chart here, it seems like Sonnet 4 was already better than GPT-5-codex in the SWE verified benchmark. However, my subjective personal experience was GPT-5-codex was far better at complex problems than Claude Code.

I always wonder how absolute in performance a given model is. Sometimes i ask for Claude-Opus and the responses i get back are worse than the lowest end models of other assistants. Other times it surprises me and is clearly best in class. Sometimes in between this variability of performance it pops up a little survey. "How's Claude doing this session from 1-5? 5 being great." and i suspect i'm in some experiment of e…

> It would make sense they scale up and down depending on utilization right?

It would, but

> To state it plainly: We never reduce model quality due to demand, time of day, or server load.

https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/a-postmortem-of-three-...

If you believe them or not is another matter, but that's what they themselves say.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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I just ran this through a simple change I’ve asked Sonnet 4 and Opus 4.1, and it fails too. It’s a simple substitution request where I provide a Lint error that suggests the correct change. All the models fail. I could ask someone with no development experience to do this change and they could. I worry everyone is chasing benchmarks to the detriment of general performance. Or the next token weight for the incorrect c…

> I worry everyone is chasing benchmarks to the detriment of general performance.

I've been worried about this for a while. I feel like Claude in particular took a step back in my own subjective performance evaluation in the switch from 3.7 to 4, while the benchmark scores leaped substantially.

To be fair, benchmarking has always been the most difficult problem to solve in this space, so it's not surprising that benchmark development isn't exactly keeping pace with all of the modeling/training development happening.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Looking at the chart here, it seems like Sonnet 4 was already better than GPT-5-codex in the SWE verified benchmark. However, my subjective personal experience was GPT-5-codex was far better at complex problems than Claude Code.

GPT-5 is like the guy on the baseball team that's really good at hitting home runs but can't do basic shit in the outfield. It also consistently gets into drama with the other agents e.g. the other day when I told it we were switching to claude code for executing changes, after badmouthing claude's entirely reasonable and measured analysis it went ahead and decided to `git reset --hard` even after I twice pushed back…

Why are you having a conversation with your LLM about other agents?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Oh wow, a lot of focus on code from the big labs recently. In hindsight it makes sense that the domain the people building it know best is the one getting the most attention, and it's also the one the models have seen the most undeniable usefulness in so far. Though personally, the unpredictability of the future where all of this goes is a bit unsettling at the same time...

Along with developers wanting to build tools for developers like you said, I think code is a particularly good use case for LLMs (large language models), since the output product is a language.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Can't use Anthropic models in Cursor. Completely cost prohibitive compared to gpt-5 and grok models.

Why is this? Does Anthropic have just higher infrastructure costs compared to OpenAI/xAI?

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Codex was a miserable experience for me until I learned to compact after every feature. Now it is a cut above CC, although the latter still has an edge at TODO scaffolding and planning.

Compact?

/compress or something like that, basically taking the context and summarizing it.

Re: Claude Sonnet 4.5

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Looking at the chart here, it seems like Sonnet 4 was already better than GPT-5-codex in the SWE verified benchmark. However, my subjective personal experience was GPT-5-codex was far better at complex problems than Claude Code.

GPT-5 is like the guy on the baseball team that's really good at hitting home runs but can't do basic shit in the outfield. It also consistently gets into drama with the other agents e.g. the other day when I told it we were switching to claude code for executing changes, after badmouthing claude's entirely reasonable and measured analysis it went ahead and decided to `git reset --hard` even after I twice pushed back…

All of these perform better if you say "a reviewer recommended" or something. The role statement provides the switch vs the implementation. You have to be careful, though. They all trust "a reviewer" strongly but they'll be more careful with "a static analysis tool".
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