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For coding Opus 4.5 in q3 2025 was still the best model I've used. Since then it's just been a cycle of the old model being progressively lobotomised and a "ne
by ifwinterco 6mo ago
For coding Opus 4.5 in q3 2025 was still the best model I've used.
Since then it's just been a cycle of the old model being progressively lobotomised and a "new" one coming out that if you're lucky might be as good as the OG Opus 4.5 for a couple of weeks.
Subjective but as far as I can tell no progress in almost a year, which is a lifetime in 2022-25 LLM timelines
- dannyw 6mo agoAnother annoyance (for more API use) is summarized/hidden reasoning traces. It makes prompt debugging and optimization much harder, since you literally don't have much visibility into the real thinking process.
- _air 6mo agoOpus 4.5 was released on Nov 24 last year. It’s only been 5 months!
- ifwinterco 6mo agoWow you're right, okay not so bad then. That brief two week period when Opus could eat entire tickets was simultaneously fantastic and a bit alarming