The new Opus feels like a step backwards. More expensive, thinks more, and it does not get the job done.
replyFrom a user’s perspective 4.7 is a downgrade compared to 4.6 . It’s intended to give Anthropic more control about their compute resources and profitability:
replyHaving never used Claude and only Codex, does Claude actually say “this is too involved” as a response to a prompt?
replyYes it does. Usually after hours of working and not getting results
replyI am curious, what kind of work do you use Claude for that sometimes requires hours of working. In my case, I have never seen it go off for more than 10 mins and even that is very rare.
replydebugging code. I had some issue so I create a plan to root cause that would run the code, change some functions or variables and run again until we get a confirmed answer.
replyI just work up to that very workflow this morning. I ran last night and finished at around 3am with ~200k tokens spent. Fixed the issue and created a follow up doc for things that it could not verify.