alt Hacker NewsI have been seeing this messaging everywhere and I have not noticed this. I have had the inverse with 4.7 over 4.6.
I think people aren’t reading the system cards when they come out. They explicitly explain your workflow needs to change. They added more levels of effort and I see no mention of that in this post.
Did y’all forget Opus 4? That was not that long ago that Claude was essentially unusable then. We are peak wizardry right now and no one is talking positively. It’s all doom and gloom around here these days.
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I have used nothing but Sonnet and composer for a year and they work fine. LLMs were certainly not unusable before and Opus is certainly not necessary, especially considering the cost. People get excited by new records on benchmarks but for most day to day work the existing models are sufficient and far more efficient.
> They explicitly explain your workflow needs to change
How about - don't break my workflow unless the change is meaningful?
While we're at it, either make y in x.y mean "groundbreaking", or "essentially same, but slightly better under some conditions". The former justifies workflow adjustments, the latter doesn't.