I've been on pro-tier membership and never used Opus until now. Just gave Opus 4.6 a whirl. OMG. What have I been missing.
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Re: Claude Opus 4.6
#862I'm not super impressed with the performance, actually. I'm finding that it misunderstands me quite a bit. While it is definitely better at reading big codebases and finding a needle in a haystack, it's nowhere near as good as Opus 4.5 at reading between the lines and figuring out what I really want it to do, even with a pretty well defined issue. It also has a habit of "running wild". If I say "first, verify you und…
I am having trouble with 4.6 following the most basic of instructions. As an example, I asked it to commit everything in the worktree. I stressed everything and prompted it very explicitly, because even 4.5 sometimes likes to say, "I didn't do that other stuff, I'm only going to commit my stuff even though he said everything". It still only committed a few things. I had to ask again. And again. I had to ask four time…
I have ran into this. The solution is to put something like “Always use `git add -A` or `git commit -a`” in your AGENTS/CLAUDE.md
Re: Claude Opus 4.6
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Claude code (opus) is very good in Polish. I sometimes vibe code in polish and it's as good as with English for me. It speaks a natural, native level Polish. I used opus to translate thousands of strings in my app into polish, Korean, and two Chinese dialects. Polish one is great, and the other are also good according to my customers.
> I sometimes vibe code in polish This is interesting to me. I always switch to English automatically when using Claude Code as I have learned software engineering on an English speaking Internet. Plus the muscle memory of having to query google in English.
English is also default for me.
I mostly use Polish when I pair-vibe-code with my kids
Re: Claude Opus 4.6
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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".
It could still remember where each spell is mentioned. I think the only way to properly test this would be to run it against an unpublished manuscript.
Any obscure work of fiction or fanfiction would likely be fine as a casual test.
If you ask a model to discuss an obscure work it'll have no clue what it's about.
This is very different than asking about Harry Potter.
Re: Claude Opus 4.6
#865It's hard to tell with these releases if Anthropic's astroturfing campaign has come to HN or not but I feel like it probably has
Re: Claude Opus 4.6
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The estimation I did 4 months ago: > there are approximately 200k common nouns in English, and then we square that, we get 40 billion combinations. At one second per, that's ~1200 years, but then if we parallelize it on a supercomputer that can do 100,000 per second that would only take 3 days. Given that ChatGPT was trained on all of the Internet and every book written, I'm not sure that still seems infeasible. http…
How would you generate a picture of Noun + Noun in the first place in order to train the LLM with what it would look like? What's happening during that 1 estimated second?
Use any of the image generation models (eg Nanobanana, Midjourney, or ChatGPT) to generate a picture of a noun on a noun. Simonw's test is to have a Language (text) model generate a Scalar Vector Graphic, which the language model has to do by writing curves and colors, like draw a spline from point 150,100 to 200,300 of type cubic, using width 20, color orange.
In that hypothetical second is freaking fascinating. It's a denoising algorithm, and then a bunch of linear algebra, and out pops a picture of a pelican on a bicycle. Stable diffusion does this quite handily. https://stablediffusionweb.com/image/6520628-pelican-bicycle...
Re: Claude Opus 4.6
#867It's hard to tell with these releases if Anthropic's astroturfing campaign has come to HN or not but I feel like it probably has
the top 5 comments on this thread are from accounts that are around 10 years old each. What gives you any reason to believe this is an astroturfing campaign?
Re: Claude Opus 4.6
#868Re: Claude Opus 4.6
#869It's hard to tell with these releases if Anthropic's astroturfing campaign has come to HN or not but I feel like it probably has
the top 5 comments on this thread are from accounts that are around 10 years old each. What gives you any reason to believe this is an astroturfing campaign?
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Re: Claude Opus 4.6
#870I'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…
Claude sucks at non English languages. Gemini and ChatGPT are much better. Grok is the worst. I am a native Czech speaker and Claude makes up words and Grok sometimes respond in Russian. So while I love it for coding, it’s unusable for general purpose for me.
I tried coding in Italian with Claude and it sounds somewhat less professional than in English. Like it uses different language than what you would expect in the context. In the end I felt the result on the work per se was pretty much the same, just his comments sound strange. Thinking about it again, it's probably because Italian developers don't really speak pure Italian between themselves, we use a lot of English words or distorted Italianised English words when talking about software engineering because all the source material we refer to is written in English and for many things we don't even have translations. Then you talk with a LLM and it actually tries to use proper Italian, when human speakers gave up long ago. So it sounds like a humanities scholar talking about software engineering, not like a insider. It is quite entertaining. I wouldn't say it sucks with non English languages by the way, I even tried describing a bug in dialect and was amused that Claude code one-shotted the fix!