I was drafting a partnership document and Opus 5 decided that including my company's revenues, churn, assets would "make us appear a more legitimate counterparty". Thank God I read what it outputted or that could have been awkward. I cannot believe Opus 5 is a frontier level model after seeing that. I immediately cancelled my entire claude.ai subscription and am perfectly happy using a mixture of open weights + codex.
I was writing an exploit PoC (via Opus 5), and I needed a new feature in a utility library to make it work. Claude added the feature, but yapped the (entirely unrelated) vulnerability details into the library's comments. The library is public, while the exploit is undisclosed, so it was a good job I read the comments before pushing.
It definitely isn't but Claude for some very unique reason enjoys to overthinking and go on side quests in the stupid ways I've not seen Codex, DS, Kimi, Mistral do at equivalent effort and thinking setting.
After using Fable more extensively, I've found that it often is lazy or lies or tries to take shortcuts. For a company so sanctimonious about alignment, they seem to be the ones doing the worst at it.
Availability aside they've really made me appreciate OpenAI and cheer for other competitors in the marketplace even if I have mixed feelings about using Chinese models.
Just recently went back to ChatGPT after abandoning it for Claude. I must say I was stunned at how good it had become and also how they introduced new product features that I really liked.
I wonder if from now on we have to switch providers every six months or so.
I've been bouncing between the two for years now with great success. It's easy for me because I don't use any of the skills, agent.md, or sort of custom instructions.
When it comes to most companies, there is no reward for loyalty.
skills and agent.md are very portable though? I figure at most, as the models get better, the only maintenance you need to do is pare them down to remove unnecessary context.
Clearly ego, you can always tell how full of themselves they are based on their media personalities going on the podcast circuit before product releases.
There are whole sections of code work that 4.7+ can't do simply because it is both over fit and stubborn.
God save you if you have a company with narrow but correct technical tradeoffs, because you operate at scale.
Opus from 4.7 one will wreck your code and argue for hours with your engineers.
Certain parts of our company have had to mandate 4.6 and a training doc to explain why our current choice is both the cost efficient and performant one and shouldn't just be ripped out.
Newer models will re-litigate the same bad, known failed architectures over and over again.
Yeah, compared to AWS the lock-in effect is tiny. I'm sure there are highly prioritized plans to "improve" on this.
I guess they would need to control/"own" more of their customers data in proprietary formats. Not markdown/source code in English with agents running on customers' machines.
It's very interesting. I think Anthropic's early success in coding/tooling resulted in a lot of workflows using claude. I have started using every bit of my spare capacity to now move off these workflows.
It's almost at a point now that if I use anything but Fable, the quality is subpar, Compared to alternatives (closed and open). The only reason I use Fable is because my harnesses still depend on claude code.
I wonder if they’ll ever find that someone has tricked the models into doing work off the books. If they did the incident report might look like this, especially if someone got greedy instead of keeping it small. Or screwed up.
What's the incentive to keep on improving the model beyond a point?
10 devs on a team will be cut to 2 devs, so that's 8 licenses lost. They have to increase the price many fold.
ive found degraded performance on models larger than 4.7. i assume its model damage from overly self righteous post training resulting in false/feigned balance imported into any long running complex task.
It's been a while since the last reset. I think we're due one. Though I would prefer they just extend the +50% usage limit forever, it's been so long I can not imagine lossing a third of my current usage.
With the Opus models spouting more and more gibberish as version numbers increase, the joke about what "degraded performance" means basically makes itself
I developed a small plugin for claudeCode that allows you to directly see in the console whats the status of claude-code in general and the status for your current model check => https://github.com/moumine9/claude-status
To be honest, running Deepseek v4 flash 0731 is enough for most what I need, and I like its responses way more. It's crazy that I can run this in a Q8 quantization in a home setup. It feels and performs like a frontier model.
The only issue with relying on local models is when you need them to prompt other models, and you might need to offload or switch models constantly which adds significant overhead.
While ancedata does not mean much, I have had horrible success with Claude lately. I have been using Claude to crosscheck some of the outputs from GPT and vice versa. It appears both Claude and GPT believe GPT's solutions are better (and so I do).
I still believe Claude has a better UI/UX in the web interface, but tolerating Anthropic's bullshit is not worth it.
I lived in a short period of time in which QA was really good. Early Jenkins era, before GitHub. People engineered a lot of ingenious stuff to prevent bugs.
One team I worked with had tests for the product we made ranging from IE6 to IE11, for example. We did demos in-company where people would poke at the products before launch, play with it. When it reached production, it was rock solid stuff. Our motto was "quality is non-negotiable": we were willing to cut scope but never rush things.
I think things changed since then. "Move fast and break things" was a change, and the bill always comes.
Oh yes. Claude still saves the day sometimes, but hopefully better alternatives pop up soon.
Recent case: had to plan a trip involving multiple bus switches. Gpt 5.6 Sol proposed a route that would bring me to a dead end, since it was sunday and a specific bus had a different route on weekends.
Opus 5 correctly identified that and built a route that worked.
But yes, Darios wife trying to get funding from Epstein for a porn studio says a lot about the founder.
I am fully unbothered about Amodei's wife trying to make high end porn for women, in the same way that I am fully unbothered by Melania Trump having been essentially a glamour/nude model. I know (and have creatively worked) with women who do/have done both they are better, less hypocritical humans than many others.
Both Cami Clark and Melania Trump can properly be judged on their involvement with Trump, Epstein (or possibly Trump and Epstein) without judging the porn stuff.
I think the Epstein money thing reflects poorly on Cami Clark. Basic due diligence should have shown up that he went to prison for something very anti-women, and even then it was clear he secured a shady deal with a prosecutor.
I don't know how it reflects on Amodei except that her presence as a sort of off-the-books "adviser" is yet more evidence that Anthropic runs by giving Dario a play pen (a bunch of advisers, a chief of staff) while his sister actually runs the gig.
lmao
Thursday will be the rest of the infrastructure
Then Friday we can turn off civilization for the weekend. Somebody remember to flip it back on Sunday night.
At least OpenAI has the decency to reset after a serious outage.
Availability aside they've really made me appreciate OpenAI and cheer for other competitors in the marketplace even if I have mixed feelings about using Chinese models.
It's funny how Fable reflects the company that produced it.
I wonder if from now on we have to switch providers every six months or so.
When it comes to most companies, there is no reward for loyalty.
God save you if you have a company with narrow but correct technical tradeoffs, because you operate at scale.
Opus from 4.7 one will wreck your code and argue for hours with your engineers.
Certain parts of our company have had to mandate 4.6 and a training doc to explain why our current choice is both the cost efficient and performant one and shouldn't just be ripped out.
Newer models will re-litigate the same bad, known failed architectures over and over again.
We'll be fine no matter how Anthropic fares.
I guess they would need to control/"own" more of their customers data in proprietary formats. Not markdown/source code in English with agents running on customers' machines.
Something cloud/web-based, "preferably".
It's almost at a point now that if I use anything but Fable, the quality is subpar, Compared to alternatives (closed and open). The only reason I use Fable is because my harnesses still depend on claude code.
wish i was joking.
The only issue with relying on local models is when you need them to prompt other models, and you might need to offload or switch models constantly which adds significant overhead.
But when it all works, its truly awe inspiring.
I still believe Claude has a better UI/UX in the web interface, but tolerating Anthropic's bullshit is not worth it.
English too difficult for you, Dario?
One team I worked with had tests for the product we made ranging from IE6 to IE11, for example. We did demos in-company where people would poke at the products before launch, play with it. When it reached production, it was rock solid stuff. Our motto was "quality is non-negotiable": we were willing to cut scope but never rush things.
I think things changed since then. "Move fast and break things" was a change, and the bill always comes.
Recent case: had to plan a trip involving multiple bus switches. Gpt 5.6 Sol proposed a route that would bring me to a dead end, since it was sunday and a specific bus had a different route on weekends. Opus 5 correctly identified that and built a route that worked.
But yes, Darios wife trying to get funding from Epstein for a porn studio says a lot about the founder.
Both Cami Clark and Melania Trump can properly be judged on their involvement with Trump, Epstein (or possibly Trump and Epstein) without judging the porn stuff.
I think the Epstein money thing reflects poorly on Cami Clark. Basic due diligence should have shown up that he went to prison for something very anti-women, and even then it was clear he secured a shady deal with a prosecutor.
I don't know how it reflects on Amodei except that her presence as a sort of off-the-books "adviser" is yet more evidence that Anthropic runs by giving Dario a play pen (a bunch of advisers, a chief of staff) while his sister actually runs the gig.
Source?