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i stopped using Claude about 2 months ago. went to Grok (the code was better, everything was better - politics aside). i wonder if this update will improve it.

i stopped using Claude about 2 months ago. went to Grok (the code was better, everything was better - politics aside). i wonder if this update will improve it. the main issue i find with Claude is, he fights you. He refuses so many requests and i need 3 or 4 replies to get what i want vs deepseek/grok. i've kept the monthly subscription to help anthropic, but it's trounced by the free options imo.

Workaccount2 2y ago
Claude 3.7 with thinking is a big step up. If you haven't used it I'd suggest giving it a try. I have used grok a bit and it did what I needed it too, so I can't really compare. But 3.7 thinking is crazy strong for coding.
- gizmodo59 2y ago
  I got much better results with o3-mini than Claude for coding. Get the high level design wkth o3 or o1 and then use gpt4 or Claude for small tasks.
- user_7832 2y ago
  I wonder if you use it exclusively for coding, because for general purpose explanation tasks, 3.7 seems absolutely terrible unfortunately. Back when it was 3.5 you could actually talk and learn things and it felt humane, but now it sounds like a McKinsey-corpo in a suit who sounds all fancy but is only right half the time. I’ve switched back (rather regretfully) to chatgpt, and holy hell is its personality much better. For example just try asking it to explain differences between Neo Grotesque and Geometrical Sans Serif fonts/typefaces. One sounds like a friend trying to explain, the other sounds like a soulless bot. (And if you have 3.5 access, try asking it too.)
  - Workaccount2 2y ago
    I use it just for coding. For general inference I use 4.5 I think OpenAI (and likely others) are on the right to track to acknowledge that different model tunings are best for different uses, and they interned to add a discriminator that can direct prompts to the best tuned model/change model tuning in real time.
qingcharles 2y ago
I find it kinda random. I normally keep 4 tabs open, Claude/GPT/Gemini/Grok and paste the problem into all 4. Depending on the problem one will be better than the others.
- ineedaj0b 2y ago
  What have you noticed Gemini doing well on? I have not used it enough

Workaccount2 2y ago

Claude 3.7 with thinking is a big step up. If you haven't used it I'd suggest giving it a try. I have used grok a bit and it did what I needed it too, so I can't really compare. But 3.7 thinking is crazy strong for coding.

gizmodo59 2y ago
I got much better results with o3-mini than Claude for coding. Get the high level design wkth o3 or o1 and then use gpt4 or Claude for small tasks.
user_7832 2y ago
I wonder if you use it exclusively for coding, because for general purpose explanation tasks, 3.7 seems absolutely terrible unfortunately. Back when it was 3.5 you could actually talk and learn things and it felt humane, but now it sounds like a McKinsey-corpo in a suit who sounds all fancy but is only right half the time. I’ve switched back (rather regretfully) to chatgpt, and holy hell is its personality much better. For example just try asking it to explain differences between Neo Grotesque and Geometrical Sans Serif fonts/typefaces. One sounds like a friend trying to explain, the other sounds like a soulless bot. (And if you have 3.5 access, try asking it too.)
- Workaccount2 2y ago
  I use it just for coding. For general inference I use 4.5 I think OpenAI (and likely others) are on the right to track to acknowledge that different model tunings are best for different uses, and they interned to add a discriminator that can direct prompts to the best tuned model/change model tuning in real time.

qingcharles 2y ago

I find it kinda random. I normally keep 4 tabs open, Claude/GPT/Gemini/Grok and paste the problem into all 4. Depending on the problem one will be better than the others.

ineedaj0b 2y ago
What have you noticed Gemini doing well on? I have not used it enough