alt Hacker NewsI used claude for the first time in months yesterday (have been using codex, ran out of resets this week). I had picked up from general consensus comments that 5.5 had fixed the opus 5 issues, but that's far from the case. Its "personality" is still smartass, know it all, and whiny. It disregards specifications in tickets if it thinks it knows better. It complains about the size of tasks when it reads task descriptions. I've gotten used to codex, which just jumps in and does stuff (which of course carries its own set of issues). I have no love for Altman, but their product is still better at the moment.
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I mean, yeah I agree. Claude is a condescending experience
Anthropic's products appeal to a certain kind of audience. This is all very much as intended.
manager thinking
you'd rather have a subject that does exactly as told, or that does what's right?
The post was about their uptime. How is this relevant.
Even if it vaguely is, why do people think subjective anecdotal thoughts about which model is better are a good discussion topic. If there’s an objective evaluation idea that would be useful.
I run evals for a very specific domain. Opus 5.5 is still the industry leader (we can’t use Fable class yet).