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Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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The model seems to have some problems; it just failed to create a markdown table with just 4 rows. The top (title) row had 2 columns, yet in 2 of the 3 data rows, Opus 4.6 tried to add a 3rd column. I had to tell it more than once to get it fixed...

This never happened with Opus 4.5 despite a lot of usage.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Surely the corpus Opus 4.6 ingested would include whatever reference you used to check the spells were there. I mean, there are probably dozens of pages on the internet like this: https://www.wizardemporium.com/blog/complete-list-of-harry-p... Why is this impressive? Do you think it's actually ingesting the books and only using those as a reference? Is that how LLMs work at all? It seems more likely it's predicting t…

So a good test would be replacing the spell names in the books with made-up spells. And if a "real" spell name was given, it also tests whether it "cheated".

A real test is synthesizing 100,000 sentences of this slect random ones and then inject the traits you want thr LLM to detect and describe, eg have a set of words or phrases that may represent spells and have them used so that they do something. Then have the LLM find these random spells in the random corpus.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

#833

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.

I love doing a personal side project code review with claude code, because it doesn't beat around the bush for criticism.

I recently compared a class that I wrote for a side project that had quite horrible temporal coupling for a data processor class.

Gemini - ends up rating it a 7/10, some small bits of feedback etc

Claude - Brutal dismemberment of how awful the naming convention, structure, coupling etc, provides examples how this will mess me up in the future. Gives a few citations for python documentation I should re-read.

ChatGPT - you're a beautiful developer who can never do anything wrong, you're the best developer that's ever existed and this class is the most perfect class i've ever seen

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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I was playing about with Chat GPT the other day, uploading screen shots of sheet music and asking it to convert it to ABC notation so I could make a midi file of it. The results seemed impressive until I noticed some of the "Thinking" statements in the UI. One made it apparent the model / agent / whatever had read the title from the screenshot and was off searching for existing ABC transcripts of the piece Ode to Joy…

Sounds pretty human like! Always searching for a shortcut

It sounds like it's lying and making stuff up, something everybody seems to be okay with when using LLMs.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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Are we sure the docs page has been updated yet? Because that page doesn't say anything about automatic recording of memories.

Oh, quite right. I saw people mention MEMORY.md online and I assumed that was the doc for it, but it looks like it isn't.

Yeah, and I was confused by the child comments under yours. They clearly didn’t read your link.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

#838
I just tried it. designed a very detailed and reaaonable plan, made some amedments to it and wrote it down to a markdown file. i told it to implement it and it started implementing the original plan instead of the revised one, that was weird.

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

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No? The hardest part of my SWE job is not the actual coding.

Even for coding, it seems to still make A LOT of mistakes. https://youtu.be/8brENzmq1pE?t=1544 I feel like everyone is counting chickens before they hatch here with all the doomsday predictions and extrapolating LLM capability into infinity. People that seem to overhype this seem to either be non-technical or are just making landing pages.

Waiting until the moment they get good enough is not a smart thing to do either. If you are a farmer and know it is going to snow, at some point in the next 5 months, you make plans NOW, you don't wait until the temperatures drop and you see the snow falling. Right now, people are waiting for the snowfall before moving their proverbial chickens indoors

Re: Claude Opus 4.6

#840
First question I ask and it made up a completely new API with confidence. Challenging it made it browse the web and offer apologies and find another issue in the first reply.

I’m very worried about the problems this will cause down the road for people not fact checking or working with things that scream at them when they’re wrong.

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