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theshrike79 9 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Claude Code on the web

I'm like 80% sure Sonnet 4.5 is just rebranded Opus.

Sonnet 4 was a coding companion, I could see what it was doing and it did what I asked.

Sonnet 4.5 is like Opus, it generates massive amounts of "helper scripts" and "bootstrap scripts" and all kinds of useless markdown documentation files even for the tinies PoC scripts.

deaux 9 months ago [–]

It's very much not, so I'm more than happy to take that bet - how much are we wagering? Have you ever used each for non-coding tasks?

The generation of helper, markdown and bootstrap scripts are very dependent on your harness.

theshrike79 9 months ago | [–]

I paid for "Claude Code", I'm not asking it for stuff about the Mesopotamian empire :)

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