After watermarking debacle and general repeated misanthropic behaviour, I don't see a single reason to keep using their products.
There are many alternatives, better, cheaper and more ethical. There's no way I'm going to support a family associated to Epstein with my or my company's money.
Oh yes. Claude still saves the day sometimes, but hopefully better alternatives pop up soon.
Recent case: had to plan a trip involving multiple bus switches. Gpt 5.6 Sol proposed a route that would bring me to a dead end, since it was sunday and a specific bus had a different route on weekends.
Opus 5 correctly identified that and built a route that worked.
But yes, Darios wife trying to get funding from Epstein for a porn studio says a lot about the founder.
ive found degraded performance on models larger than 4.7. i assume its model damage from overly self righteous post training resulting in false/feigned balance imported into any long running complex task.
With the Opus models spouting more and more gibberish as version numbers increase, the joke about what "degraded performance" means basically makes itself
There are whole sections of code work that 4.7+ can't do simply because it is both over fit and stubborn.
God save you if you have a company with narrow but correct technical tradeoffs, because you operate at scale.
Opus from 4.7 one will wreck your code and argue for hours with your engineers.
Certain parts of our company have had to mandate 4.6 and a training doc to explain why our current choice is both the cost efficient and performant one and shouldn't just be ripped out.
Newer models will re-litigate the same bad, known failed architectures over and over again.
This is exactly when I left claude and started using codex during April mid or so. It once argued with me and ran for 30 minutes with a half baked buggy fix.
Just recently went back to ChatGPT after abandoning it for Claude. I must say I was stunned at how good it had become and also how they introduced new product features that I really liked.
I wonder if from now on we have to switch providers every six months or so.
Clearly ego, you can always tell how full of themselves they are based on their media personalities going on the podcast circuit before product releases.
What's the incentive to keep on improving the model beyond a point?
10 devs on a team will be cut to 2 devs, so that's 8 licenses lost. They have to increase the price many fold.
What I don't understand is, why not replace middle management, marketing, CTOs, CEOs and the like. Surely, LLMs are better at producing high quality looking slideware and vaporware than they are at producing software.
Heavy sarcasm here if it's not obvious. Of course I know why.
I mean, there a so many startups getting crazy funding that run without management, or without engineers... or at least with so many less people than before.. except: not really.
Is the whole "it's gonna replace people" even still on the table?
I don't really understand what you mean... are you saying that the entire industry is parroting a fantasy that they all know is fake. So, everyone is faking to get more funds?
You think AI will replace a significant portion of the workforce in the sector?
Do you see it already happening? I personally not. Lay offs are due to economic reasons, at least that's what I see. Why does Anthropic still had so many engineers?
I got the impression companies are already moving back from their initial excitement. Many went all-in AI "more is better", that's not the case anymore. Why restricting usage, it's much cheaper than paying an engineer.
While ancedata does not mean much, I have had horrible success with Claude lately. I have been using Claude to crosscheck some of the outputs from GPT and vice versa. It appears both Claude and GPT believe GPT's solutions are better (and so I do).
I still believe Claude has a better UI/UX in the web interface, but tolerating Anthropic's bullshit is not worth it.
To be honest, running Deepseek v4 flash 0731 is enough for most what I need, and I like its responses way more. It's crazy that I can run this in a Q8 quantization in a home setup. It feels and performs like a frontier model.
The only issue with relying on local models is when you need them to prompt other models, and you might need to offload or switch models constantly which adds significant overhead.
It's been a while since the last reset. I think we're due one. Though I would prefer they just extend the +50% usage limit forever, it's been so long I can not imagine lossing a third of my current usage.
I developed a small plugin for claudeCode that allows you to directly see in the console whats the status of claude-code in general and the status for your current model check => https://github.com/moumine9/claude-status
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Source?
The question usually comes from conspiracy practitioners.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2026/08/14/who-is-...
Recent case: had to plan a trip involving multiple bus switches. Gpt 5.6 Sol proposed a route that would bring me to a dead end, since it was sunday and a specific bus had a different route on weekends. Opus 5 correctly identified that and built a route that worked.
But yes, Darios wife trying to get funding from Epstein for a porn studio says a lot about the founder.
wish i was joking.
God save you if you have a company with narrow but correct technical tradeoffs, because you operate at scale.
Opus from 4.7 one will wreck your code and argue for hours with your engineers.
Certain parts of our company have had to mandate 4.6 and a training doc to explain why our current choice is both the cost efficient and performant one and shouldn't just be ripped out.
Newer models will re-litigate the same bad, known failed architectures over and over again.
I wonder if from now on we have to switch providers every six months or so.
At least OpenAI has the decency to reset after a serious outage.
Heavy sarcasm here if it's not obvious. Of course I know why.
Is the whole "it's gonna replace people" even still on the table?
Unfortunately, I don't think that's true.
Do you see it already happening? I personally not. Lay offs are due to economic reasons, at least that's what I see. Why does Anthropic still had so many engineers?
I got the impression companies are already moving back from their initial excitement. Many went all-in AI "more is better", that's not the case anymore. Why restricting usage, it's much cheaper than paying an engineer.
I still believe Claude has a better UI/UX in the web interface, but tolerating Anthropic's bullshit is not worth it.
The only issue with relying on local models is when you need them to prompt other models, and you might need to offload or switch models constantly which adds significant overhead.
But when it all works, its truly awe inspiring.
ba dum tsss
(sorry couldn’t help myself)