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0 pointsK0balt1mo ago0 comments

Opus 4.6 is outstanding for code, and for the little I have used it outside of that context, in everything else I have used it with. The productivity with code is at least 3x what I was getting with 5.2, and it can handle entire projects fairly responsibly. It doesn’t patronize the user, and it makes a very strong effort to capture and follow intentions. Unlike 5.2, I’ve never had to throw out a days work that it covertly screwed up taking shortcuts and just guessing.

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renmillar1mo ago

That last part is a real one though, mine tried to debug a Dockerfile by poking around my local environment outside of Docker today.

josephg1mo ago

I’ve had it make some pretty obvious mistakes. I have to hold back the impulse to “unstick” it manually. In my case, it’s been surprisingly good at eventually figuring out what it was doing wrong - though sometimes it burns a few minutes of tokens in the process.

tiltowait1mo ago

Claude's willingness to poke outside of its present directory can definitely be a little worrying. Just the other day, it started trying to access my jails after I specifically told it not to.

e1g1mo ago

On a Mac, I use built-in sandboxing to jail Claude (and every other agent) to $CWD so it doesn’t read/write anything it shouldn’t, doesn’t leak env, etc. This is done by dynamically generating access policies and I open sourced this at https://agent-safehouse.dev

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teaearlgraycold1mo ago

For the moment it’s best practice to run it and all of your dev stuff in a VM.

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