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I certainly noticed a significant drop in reasoning power at some point after I subscribed to Claude. Since then I've applied all sorts of fixes that range from

I certainly noticed a significant drop in reasoning power at some point after I subscribed to Claude. Since then I've applied all sorts of fixes that range from disabling adaptive thinking to maxing out thinking tokens to patching system prompts with an ad-hoc shell script from a gist. Even after all this, Opus will still sometimes go round and round in illogical circles, self-correcting constantly with the telltale "no wait" and undoing everything until it ends up right where it started with nothing to show for it after 100k tokens spent. Whether it's due to bugs or actual malice, it's not a good look. I genuinely can't tell if it's buggy, if it's been intentionally degraded, if it's placebo or if it's all just an elaborate OpenAI psyop.

babaganoosh89 7mo ago
There's a github issue for this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796
- matheusmoreira 7mo ago
  Yes, I commented on it and applied all remedies suggested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442 Configuration and environment variables seem to have improved things somewhat but it still seems to be hit or miss.
- watt 7mo ago
  That issue now is closed, probably as "not planned".
beering 7mo ago
The real question I see nobody asking is how GPT-5.4 beats Opus at a fraction of the price. I doubt it’s only a question of subsidization. My impression from the past is that GPT-5 was around a Sonnet-sized model, and 5-mini was Haiku-sized. At least on my codebase anyways, Codex one-shots tricky things that Opus needs several tries to fully get right.
- matheusmoreira 7mo ago
  I wanted to choose Anthropic because they were apparently more ethical compared to OpenAI, but... Yeah. Right now the only blocker for me is the lack of Linux support.
  - trollbridge 7mo ago
    Cursor?
- alphabettsy 7mo ago
  IMO it doesn’t handily beat it. It’s typically equivalent, sometimes better, sometimes behind. Better at following a well defined plan, less good at concept exploration and planning imo. At 1m context it’s basically the same price.
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babaganoosh89 7mo ago

There's a github issue for this: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/42796

matheusmoreira 7mo ago
Yes, I commented on it and applied all remedies suggested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47664442 Configuration and environment variables seem to have improved things somewhat but it still seems to be hit or miss.
watt 7mo ago
That issue now is closed, probably as "not planned".

beering 7mo ago

The real question I see nobody asking is how GPT-5.4 beats Opus at a fraction of the price. I doubt it’s only a question of subsidization. My impression from the past is that GPT-5 was around a Sonnet-sized model, and 5-mini was Haiku-sized. At least on my codebase anyways, Codex one-shots tricky things that Opus needs several tries to fully get right.

matheusmoreira 7mo ago
I wanted to choose Anthropic because they were apparently more ethical compared to OpenAI, but... Yeah. Right now the only blocker for me is the lack of Linux support.
- trollbridge 7mo ago
  Cursor?
alphabettsy 7mo ago
IMO it doesn’t handily beat it. It’s typically equivalent, sometimes better, sometimes behind. Better at following a well defined plan, less good at concept exploration and planning imo. At 1m context it’s basically the same price.

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