Comment by mwigdahl
3 days ago
I've been a proponent for a long time, so I certainly fit this at least partially. However, the combination of Claude Code and the Claude 4 models has pushed the response to my demos of AI coding at my org from "hey, that's kind of cool" to "Wow, can you get me an API key please?"
It's been a very noticeable uptick in power, and although there have been some nice increases with past model releases, this has been both the largest and the one that has unlocked the most real value since I've been following the tech.
Is that really the case vs. 3.7? For me that was the threshold, and since then the improvements have been nice but not as significant.
I would agree with you that the jump from Sonnet 3.7 to Sonnet 4 feels notable but not shocking. Opus 4 is considerably better, and Opus 4 combined with the Claude Code harness is what really unlocks the value for me.