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0 pointstiberriver25610mo ago0 comments

3.7 did score higher in coding benchmarks but in practice 3.5 is much better at coding. 3.7 ignores instructions and does things you didn't ask it to do.

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sannee10mo ago

I suspect that is precisely why it got better at coding benchmarks.

spaceman_202010mo ago

3.7 is too overactive

I prefer Gemini 2.5 pro for all code now

hombre_fatal10mo ago

Gemini 2.5 Pro has solved problems that Claude 3.7 cannot, so I use it for the hard stuff.

But Gemini is at least as overactive as Claude, sometimes even more overactive when it comes to something like comment spam.

Of course, this can be fixed with prompting. And sometimes it feels sheepish complaining about the machine god doing most of my chore work that didn't even exist a couple years ago.

conception10mo ago

2.5 is my “okay Claude can’t get it” but first I check my “bank account” to see if I can afford it.

ralusek10mo ago

Isn’t 2.5 pro significantly cheaper?

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UncleEntity10mo ago

I think it just does that to eat up your token quota and get you to upgrade.

Like, ask it a simple question and it comes up with a full repo, complete with a README and a Makefile, when all you wanted to know was how efficient a particular algorithm would be in the included code.

Can't wait until the add research to the Pro plan because, you know, I have questions...

vineyardmike10mo ago

> I think it just does that to eat up your token quota and get you to upgrade.

If you pay for a subscription then they don’t have an incentive to use more tokens for the same answer.

It’s definitely because feedback from people has “taught” it that more boilerplate is better. It’s the same reason ChatGPT is annoyingly complementary.

suyash10mo ago

That has been the most annoying thing about it, so glad not paying for it anymore.

danw197910mo ago

Can’t you still use Sonnet 3.5 anyway ? or is that a paying subscriber feature only ?

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