Comment by dns_snek

Comment by dns_snek 2 days ago

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We really need to add some kind of risk to people making these claims to make it more interesting. I listened to the type of advice you're giving here on more occasions than I can remember, at least once for every major revision of every major LLM and always walked away frustrated because it hindered me more than it helped.

> This is actually amazing now, just use [insert ChatGPT, GPT-4, 4.5, 5, o1, o3, Deepseek, Claude 3.5, 3.9, Gemini 1, 1.5, 2, ...] it's completely different from Model(n-1) you've tried.

I'm not some mythical 140 IQ 10x developer and my work isn't exceptional so this shouldn't happen.

ramesh31 2 days ago

The dark secret no one from the big providers wants to admit is that Claude is the only viable coding model. Everything else descends into a mess of verbose spaghetti full of hallucinations pretty quickly. Claude is head and shoulders above the rest and it isn't even remotely close, regardless of what any benchmark says.

  • JackFr 2 days ago

    Stopping by to concur.

    Tried about four others, and to some extent I always marveled about capabilities of latest and greatest I had to concede they didn’t make faster. I think Claude does.

  • jve 2 days ago

    As a GPT user, your comment triggered me wanting to search how superior is Claude... well, these users don't think it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1l5h2ds/i_paid_fo...

    • ramesh31 2 days ago

      >As a GPT user, your comment triggered me wanting to search how superior is Claude... well, these users don't think it is: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1l5h2ds/i_paid_fo...

      That poster isn't comparing models, he's comparing Claude Code to Cline (two agentic coding tools), both using Claude Sonnet 4. I was pretty much in the same boat all year as well; using Cline heavily at work ($1k+/month token spend) and I was sold on it over Claude Code, although I've just recently made the switch, as Claude Code has a VSCode extension now. Whichever agentic tooling you use (Cline, CC, Cursor, Aider, etc.) is still a matter of debate, but the underlying model (Sonnet/Opus) seems to be unanimously agreed on as being in a league of its own, and has been since 3.5 released last year.