alt Hacker NewsOpus 4.7 has been a real downgrade for me. I’m back to mid 2025 when I had to catch all the completely intermediary goals/assumptions the model is creating for itself
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kaeluka • today at 12:01 PM
it's sort of good at thinking, writing specs, etc.. Also debugging. But as a coder: I see no advantage to opus 4.6 and I preferred sonnet most times already over opus 4.6.
chantepierre • today at 7:54 AM
I felt that but find it worked way better by invoking it with `claude --effort max` only
You can still use older versions of Opus if they work better for you. Just need to set the environment variable.