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Seconded. After disabling adaptive thinking and using a default higher thinking, I finally got the quality I'm looking for out of Opus 4.6, and I'm pleased wit

Seconded. After disabling adaptive thinking and using a default higher thinking, I finally got the quality I'm looking for out of Opus 4.6, and I'm pleased with what I see so far in Opus 4.7. Whatever their internal evals say about adaptive thinking, they're measuring the wrong thing.

hbbio 6mo ago
Unless they're measuring capex
- echelon 6mo ago
  That's why they put the cute animal in your terminal.
  - SV_BubbleTime 6mo ago
    Ok, side topic… but that little bastard cheerfully told me out of no where that I have a mall of without a null check AND a free inside a conditional that might not get called. It didn’t give me a line number or file. I had to go investigate. Finally found what it was talking about. It was wrong. It took me about 20 minutes start to finish. Turned it off and will not be turning it back on.
    - darkwater 6mo ago
      I thought it just emitted tongue-in-cheek comments, not serious analysis. And I use the past tense because I had it enable explicitly and a few days ago it disappeared by itself, didn't touch anything.
      - c0wb0yc0d3r 6mo ago
        The buddies were Anthropics April fools day stunt. Buddies were removed from a newer version of Claude code. By default Claude code updates automatically.
      - SV_BubbleTime 6mo ago
        Maybe it was supposed to be tongue in cheek. But I don’t know, man in my opinion you don’t fucking snicker about a malloc without a null check and only a conditional free that isn’t there. Go to hell “Sprocket”.
- JamesSwift 6mo ago
  Its even more maddening for me because my whole team is paying direct API pricing for the privilege of this experience! Just charge me the cost and let me tune this thing, sheesh!
  - manmal 6mo ago
    Why don’t you switch to codex? The grass is greener here. Do use 5.3-codex though, 5.4 is not for coding, despite what many say.
    - JamesSwift 6mo ago
      Anthropic in general is miles ahead in “getting work done”, and its not just me on the team. Theres a lot of paper cuts to work through to be truly generic in provider I did try out codex before claude went to shit and it was good, even uniquely good in some ways, but wasnt good enough to choose it over claude. Absolutely when claude was bad again it would have been better, but thats hindsight that I should have moved over temporarily.
  - pojzon 6mo ago
    If you get to pay X to YY $$ per each request (because thats the real cost for Anthropic), I strongly believe AI train would suddenly derail. Currently we are all subsidied by investors money. How long you can have a business that is only losing money. At some point prices will level up and this will be the end of this escapade.
    - FeepingCreature 6mo ago
      It's very unlikely that API use is subsidized.
      - jermaustin1 6mo ago
        I keep hearing both sides of this "debate," but no one is providing any direct evidence other than "I do(n't) think that is true."
- TeMPOraL 6mo ago
  Except for the model weights themselves, they hardly have any!
robertfall 6mo ago
As far as I understand Opus 4.7 disregards the disable adaptive thinking flag. So if you're seeing it perform well, perhaps their evals are inline?
misja111 6mo ago
Is 4.6 without adaptive thinking better than 4.5? Honest question. I switched back to 4.5 because 4.6 seemed mostly to take longer and consume more tokens, without noticeable improvement in the end result.

hbbio 6mo ago

Unless they're measuring capex

echelon 6mo ago
That's why they put the cute animal in your terminal.
- SV_BubbleTime 6mo ago
  Ok, side topic… but that little bastard cheerfully told me out of no where that I have a mall of without a null check AND a free inside a conditional that might not get called. It didn’t give me a line number or file. I had to go investigate. Finally found what it was talking about. It was wrong. It took me about 20 minutes start to finish. Turned it off and will not be turning it back on.
  - darkwater 6mo ago
    I thought it just emitted tongue-in-cheek comments, not serious analysis. And I use the past tense because I had it enable explicitly and a few days ago it disappeared by itself, didn't touch anything.
    - c0wb0yc0d3r 6mo ago
      The buddies were Anthropics April fools day stunt. Buddies were removed from a newer version of Claude code. By default Claude code updates automatically.
    - SV_BubbleTime 6mo ago
      Maybe it was supposed to be tongue in cheek. But I don’t know, man in my opinion you don’t fucking snicker about a malloc without a null check and only a conditional free that isn’t there. Go to hell “Sprocket”.
JamesSwift 6mo ago
Its even more maddening for me because my whole team is paying direct API pricing for the privilege of this experience! Just charge me the cost and let me tune this thing, sheesh!
- manmal 6mo ago
  Why don’t you switch to codex? The grass is greener here. Do use 5.3-codex though, 5.4 is not for coding, despite what many say.
  - JamesSwift 6mo ago
    Anthropic in general is miles ahead in “getting work done”, and its not just me on the team. Theres a lot of paper cuts to work through to be truly generic in provider I did try out codex before claude went to shit and it was good, even uniquely good in some ways, but wasnt good enough to choose it over claude. Absolutely when claude was bad again it would have been better, but thats hindsight that I should have moved over temporarily.
- pojzon 6mo ago
  If you get to pay X to YY $$ per each request (because thats the real cost for Anthropic), I strongly believe AI train would suddenly derail. Currently we are all subsidied by investors money. How long you can have a business that is only losing money. At some point prices will level up and this will be the end of this escapade.
  - FeepingCreature 6mo ago
    It's very unlikely that API use is subsidized.
    - jermaustin1 6mo ago
      I keep hearing both sides of this "debate," but no one is providing any direct evidence other than "I do(n't) think that is true."
TeMPOraL 6mo ago
Except for the model weights themselves, they hardly have any!

robertfall 6mo ago

As far as I understand Opus 4.7 disregards the disable adaptive thinking flag. So if you're seeing it perform well, perhaps their evals are inline?

misja111 6mo ago

Is 4.6 without adaptive thinking better than 4.5? Honest question. I switched back to 4.5 because 4.6 seemed mostly to take longer and consume more tokens, without noticeable improvement in the end result.