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Once Claude can measure something, it can make it faster

231 points · 153 comments · matthieu_bl

  1. hungryhobbit · · focus · HN ↗
    How about you make Opus 5.5 actually work?

    I had it try to prepare a code review for me. Not only did it refuse, it refused to even tell me what the prompt (written by another Claude!) was. Why?

    When I had another model read the session (all of the "stupider" models handled it just fine) it explained that it had the word "reasoning" in it

    That's the entirety of Anthropic's billions of dollars of research: any prompt with the word "reasoning" is trying to hack Claude to figure out how it reasons!

    A model like that should never have gotten out of QA, let alone been released.

    1. bitpush · · focus · HN ↗
      I understand the frustration but shows a lack of critical thinking. Esp when you start with 'How about ..'.

      This blogpost is about frontend performance. It'll be akin to you commenting on a swift blogpost saying 'How about Airpods noise cancellation'. Sure both are Apple, but they are wildly different teams.

      1. hungryhobbit · · focus · HN ↗
        This is a techie discussion forum.

        In such a forum, it seems to me like it's fair game to point out that the company patting itself on the back about how great they are at programming (as evidenced in the article above about their 3x speed improvement) ...

        ... can't even make their latest model handle basic English without refusing to work.

        1. jfidjcjwjcjwjd · · focus · HN ↗
          Not that I’m defending Anthropic but OP is right, you’re complaining about the taste of a pear on a blog post about roses with the excuse that you’re in a biology forum. Sure, they both come from the same family, and sure, they both fall under the purview of biology, but they’re not the same.
          1. s3p · · focus · HN ↗
            I struggle to understand this argument. It is very likely that the user who is complaining about Opus 5.5 would be unable to do the very tasks anthropic is mentioning in their blog post, because of the refusals.

            In a blog post about Claude, i find it strange you get upset when people talk about Claude

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