alt Hacker NewsI am genuinely curious to know what kind of genuine problems people are solving with opus that cant be done with sonnet or the free models. If there are problems that people are working on that only opus 5.5 can solve then were we not touching such problems last year at all (because last years best model was inferior to sonnet 5.5). And if people are solving such problems now, why cant I see any meaningful improvement in even a single software I use everyday?
Not trying to diss on anything or anybody. I want to know.
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aaronrobinson • yesterday at 7:56 AM
I took a few months out and it’s noticeable quite how much better opus is at least in respect of the quality of understanding. It’s a step change for me.
MINECRAFT_BIOLO • yesterday at 7:56 AM
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Sonnet 5.5 feels like a cocky rookie. It's capable, but it often makes mistakes and especially poor assumptions, and when I point it out it just goes "yeah I did that wrong". Opus is much better at judging assumptions, makes less poor assumptions and mistakes. And when I point them out it takes it to heart and makes sure it guards against such a mistake in the future.
Sonnet is great for simple work, such as subagents running a program and summarizing the output. Opus is just that much better at the more challenging work I find.
You can probably get Sonnet to reach the same goal, but Opus needs much less hand-holding and overwatch.