Opus 4.7 is horrible at writing

Regardless of which one. They're too verbose. They repeat information. They lack cohesion. Overly agreeable. The flaws are part of the tool.

Meaning: You managed your ways around the system prompt and usage intention - Congrats! Now it doesn't work any more - Bummer!

Have you tried opus 4.7 in comparison to 4.6 with a general purpose / writing system prompt in the app? Thats where this would make more sense.

It goes to show that there's a very large and vocal user base using it for writing, and yet it's not part of the benchmark for Anthropic.

Anyway, try Sonnet 4.5 while it's still available?

It is not only the model that affects the end results. Good technical specification, architecture documents, rules, lessons learned, release notes, proper and descriptive prompting are also important.

This is something it spit out just now (trimmed a 9 line comment though):

        let keepSize = 0;
        let overBudget = false;

        await this.items.orderBy('[priority+dateUpdated+size]')
            .reverse()
            .eachPrimaryKey((primaryKey, cursor) => {
                if (overBudget) {
                    evictKeys.push(primaryKey as string);
                    return;
                }

                const key = cursor.key as [number, number, number];
                const itemSize = key[2];
                const contribution = itemSize > 0 ? itemSize : 0;

                if (keepSize + contribution > maxSize) {
                    overBudget = true;
                    evictKeys.push(primaryKey as string);
                    return;
                }

                keepSize += contribution;
            });

        let totalSize = 0;

        await this.items.orderBy('[priority+dateUpdated+size]')
            .reverse()
            .eachPrimaryKey((primaryKey, cursor) => {
                const key = cursor.key as [number, number, number];
                const itemSize = key[2];
                const contribution = itemSize > 0 ? itemSize : 0;

                totalSize += contribution;

                if (totalSize > maxSize) {
                    evictKeys.push(primaryKey as string);
                }
            });

I guess they broke continuity with a 0.1 in model version change in some ways.

i asked it to look at writing research (especially from NN/g) and come up with some alternatives for a heading that is roughly supposed to convey:

"this app lets you create custom shortcuts for all mac apps, even sophisticated ones, mouse wheel ones, ..."

it came up with the following headlines:

  1. ONE APP, MANY MAC APPS
  2. ONE INSTALL, MANY APPS ONE APP.
  3. ONE PACK PER MAC APP.
  4. ALL YOUR APP SHORTCUTS IN ONE PLACE
  5. [app name] IS ONE APP. PACKS COVER THE REST.

  1. The Shortcuts Your Apps Are Missing
  2. What Your Apps Still Don't Let You
  3. Do The Parts You Still Do by Hand
  4. When Built-In Shortcuts Run Out
  5. Where Your Apps Stop Short

that's not something even GPT-3.5 would come up with.

"one install, many apps" ........huh???