I'm mostly surprised that people found the output quality of Opus 4.6 good enough... 4.7 so far is a pretty sizable improvement for the stuff I care about. I don't really care how cheap 4.6 was per task when 90% of the tasks weren't actually being done correctly. Or maybe it's that people like the LLM agreeing with them blindly while sneakily doing something else under the hood? Did people enjoy Claude routinely disregarding their instructions? Not really sure I understand, I truly found 4.6 immensely frustrating (from the getgo, not just the "pre-nerf" version, whatever that means). 4.7 is a buggy mess, it's slow, and it costs a lot per token. It's also a huge breath of fresh air because it actually seems to make a good faith effort at doing the thing you asked it to do, and doesn't waste your time with irrelevant nonsense just to make it look busy or because it thinks you want that nonsense (I mean, it still does all of these things to some extent, but so far it seems like it does them much less than 4.6 did).

Disclaimer: I'm always running on max and don't really have token limits so I am in a position not to care about cost per token. But I am not surprised by the improved benchmark results at all, 4.6 was really not nearly as strong of a model as people seem to remember it being.

> The compute is expensive, what is with this outrage?

Gamblers (vibe-coders) at Anthropic's casino realising that their new slot machine upgrade (Claude Opus) is now taking 20%-30% more credits for every push of the spin button.

Problem is, it advertises how good it is (unverified benchmarks) and has a better random number generator but it still can be rigged (made dumber) by the vendor (Anthropic).

The house (Anthropic) always wins.

> People just want free tools forever?

Using local models are the answer to this if you want to use AI models free forever.

are you okay with paying more for your services without any perceived improvement in the service itself?