alt Hacker NewsAnybody else having problem getting Opus 4.7 to write code? I had it pick up a month-old project, some small one off scripts that I want to modify, and it refused to even touch the code.
So far it costs a lot less, because I'm not going to be using it.
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GeoAtreides • yesterday at 11:43 PM
> it refused to even touch the code.
???
please i beg post the prompt and the refusal
I literally can not imagine a model refusing to do something
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mrtesthah • yesterday at 8:14 PM
No, see, we have to leave writing code to fully identity-verified individuals working on behalf of only the largest institutions now because what if they decided to write malware?
On the contrary, I threw a multi-threading optimization task on it, that 4.5 and 4.6 have been pretty useless at handling. 4.7 bested my hand-tuned solution by almost 2x on first attempt.
This was what I thought was my best moat as a senior dev. No other model has been able to come close to the throughput I could achieve on my own before. Might be a fluke of course, and they've picked up a few patterns in training that applies to this particular problem and doesn't generalize. We'll see.