I switched back to 4.5 Sonnet or Opus yesterday since 4.6 was so slow and often “over thinking” or “over analyzing” the problem space. Tasks which accurately took under an minute in Sonnet 4.5 were still running after 5 minutes in 4.6 (yeah I had them race for a few tasks)

Someone of this could be system overload I suppose.

"Back in my day you had to wait 3 minutes to generate 10k lines of code."

Honestly, Open AI isn't worth it. I cancelled my Open AI plan (and hopefully will delete my account soon once I export all my data out) because of philosophy differences. They shared they are evaluating a model where they can get a % of your business in exchange for letting you use code generated by their AI models. That and the possible advertising angle. But, that's not even the worst, I asked ChatGPT to fairly evaluate the risky model where one for profit corporation holds your entire intimate personal details and uses it for advertising, it staunchly defended OpenAI. That was the nail in the coffin for me.

Contrast to this - Anthropic actually asks you if you want their AI to remember details about you and they have lot of toggles around privacy. I don't care if they make money from extra tokens as long as they don't go the Open AI route.

In cursor, GPT models already have +Fast options that work faster with 2x price

Gold for Anthropic but kinda shit for everyone else no? Now they have a profit motive for slowing down the normal service.

This is the Deliveroo playbook of offering a ‘premium’ service that is really just the original service with the original slowed down.

Same with speedy boarding for airlines. Now almost everyone pays for it so you don’t even get a benefit.