I miss the old Claude Code

Dathuil

My first deep dive with Claude Code was in Jan of this year. I was working on rebuilding an old city builder game from the the 00s and was trying to parse the original images from the game files. There was plenty if info on the structure online so I said I'd let Claude give it a go. I was running one of the sonnets I think. After about 5 prompts I had a web interface that I could drag the files into and it presented me a grid of all the images and I was able to export more common sprite sheets. Whole thing took maybe 10-15min and my mind was blown. I have tried to do the same recently with the newer models and we're still not writing code by the time the older models had finished their work. Something has definetly changed in relation to how much pre work the newer models are doing and maybe it's by design for more consistant results.

setnone

it won me over at 4.6 and lost at 4.7 and the image 'How multiagent turf war runs ended' [0] might explain the shift in the behaviour [0] https://www.anthropic.com/research/multiagent-systems

datakan

Seems the site is down

latentsea

I miss humans.

theowaway213456

Site is broken: "Error establishing a database connection"

naniel

Fable is quite good, but i also noticed that the later opus models don't seem quite as effective as before. We break down our tasks pretty granularly before they get picked up by a model, and for that workflow we've found that sonnet 4 and opus 4 are still quite effective, and debatably more effective than the 5s for reference, we use n-dx ( https://n-dx.dev ) for our workflow

gorayobi

I do too. In the past couple of months it's just doing too much. Before it was prompt -> model writes code -> done, I check the work. Now it's prompt -> model seems to read the entire codebase to 'get the full picture' -> takes forever to write code -> runs a whole bunch of things to verify the result. It seems like they have optimized the harness more and more for people who don't know what they are doing or what they want. I know what I want. I mostly want to 10x my typing, I already know what I want and what files to edit and how to verify the result.