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Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

KellyCriterion wrote: post #30
Joeri wrote: post #13

I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat. I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure t…

> there really is no moat. For ChatGPT and Gemini, yes. But for Claude, they have a very deep & big one: Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt. Yesterday I used my tokens til noon, so I tried some output from Gemini & Co. I presented a working piece of code which is already in production: 1. It changed without noticing things like "Touple.First.Date.Created" and "Touple.Se…

> Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt.

That's, just, like, your opinion, man.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by Sammi »

Gooblebrai wrote: post #64
Joeri wrote: post #13

I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat. I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure t…

Claude still doesn't have image generation?

Image generation isn't what most devs spend most of their time on?

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by miyuru »

Lionga wrote: post #67
miyuru wrote: post #50

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I dont like the Gemini's personality. It acts like it know it all.

Don't all LLMS act like it know it all?

Gemini, doubles down when a mistake is pointed out.

Other usually find the mistake or check new sources to fix the mistake.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by jacquesm »

rustyhancock wrote: post #79
jacquesm wrote: post #75

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It's not high. But it is higher.

We'll take anything we can right now. I agree. Although we shouldn't let that mean we misjudge what we are actually getting.

As a rule when there are large companies and/or billionaires involved you are in for trouble.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by crossroadsguy »

Joeri wrote: post #13

I already switched to claude a while ago. Didn’t bring along any context, just switched subscriptions, walked away from chatgpt and haven’t touched it again. Turned out to be a non-event, there really is no moat. I switched not because I thought Claude was better at doing the things I want. I switched because I have come to believe OpenAI are a bad actor and I do not want to support them in any way. I’m pretty sure t…

I wrote off ChatGPT/OpenAI because of Sam Altman and those eyeball scan things - so sort of even before all this was a rage and centre stage. Sometimes it's just the gut feeling, and while it may not always be accurate, if something doesn't "feel" right, maybe it is not right. No one else is all good either, but what I mean to say is there are some entities/people who repeatedly don't feel right, have things attached to them that never felt right, etc., and you get a combined "gut feeling". At least that's how it was for me.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by Sammi »

brikym wrote: post #5

Hey Anthropic, how about you use AGENTS.md for one thing.

Before this week I was sure Anthropic were actually just as soulless as OpenAi, just because they don't support open standards like AGENTS.md and /.agents/skills. They can so easily win the support of the open source crowd if they just support open standards like these.

The /.agents/skills issue for claude code is here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/16345

Their automatic close bot will close it soon as it's been three weeks since the last comment.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by seba_dos1 »

jacquesm wrote: post #73
AlecSchueler wrote: post #58

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> Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt. Yesterday I used my tokens til noon, so I tried some output from Gemini & Co. I presented a working piece of code which is already in production: One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code. It could be that this wasn't a like for like com…

> One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code. Don't we all?

Nope.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by vishnugupta »

deaux wrote: post #17
jjmarr wrote: post #7

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Most normal people want the LLM to remember their interests and favourite things, so they don't have to manually re-explain when asking for advice. They also don't know what "context" is or that the LLM has a limited number of tokens it can understand at any given time. They just believe it knows everything at once.

Do you have example prompts where this would be usual? Why would you want an LLM to know your favorite type of cheese? Now that I say that, I guess if you use it for recipes then it's useful if it remembers things like dietary restrictions. And even then a project seems like the better option. I can't think of much else though so I'm still curious what you or others use it for.

I use it for my work. So i went it to remember everything about my business, website, the domain, which country we operate and on and on. It’s a ton of context which I don’t want to repeat each time.

Re: Switch to Claude without starting over

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Post by peteforde »

ptnpzwqd wrote: post #57
KellyCriterion wrote: post #30

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> there really is no moat. For ChatGPT and Gemini, yes. But for Claude, they have a very deep & big one: Its the only model that gets production ready output on the first detailled prompt. Yesterday I used my tokens til noon, so I tried some output from Gemini & Co. I presented a working piece of code which is already in production: 1. It changed without noticing things like "Touple.First.Date.Created" and "Touple.Se…

I have used Claude (incl. Opus 4.6) fairly extensively, and Claude still spits out quality that is far below what I would call production ready - both littered with smaller issues, but also the occasional larger blunder. Particularly when doing anything non-trivial, and even when guiding it in detail (although that admittedly reduces the amount of larger structural issues). Maybe it is tech stack dependent (I have mo…

I see this over and over again. I don't dispute your experience. My experience with ESP32 development has been unreasonably positive. My codebase is sitting around 600k LoC and is the product of several hundred Opus 4.x Plan -> Agent -> Debug loops. I review everything that goes through, but I'm reviewing the business logic and domain gotchas, not dumb crap like what you and so many others describe.

What is so strange to me is that surely there is more C# out there than ESP-IDF code? I don't have a good explanation beyond saying that my codebase is extensively tested and used; I would know very quickly if it suddenly started shitting the bed in the way you explain.

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