Comment by Workaccount2
4 hours ago
I think Anthropic is reading the room, and just going to go hard on being "the" coding model. I suppose they feel that if they can win that, they can get an ROI without having to do full blown multimodality at the highest level.
It's probably pretty liberating, because you can make a "spikey" intelligence with only one spike to really focus on.
Codex has been good enough to me and it’s much cheaper.
I code non-trivial stuff with it like multi-threaded code and at least for my style of AI coding which is to do fairly small units of work with multiple revisions it is good enough for me to not to even consider the competition.
Just giving you a perspective on how the benchmarks might not be important at all for some people and how Claude may have a difficult time being the definitive coding model.
It remains to be seen whether that works out for them, but it seems like a good bet to me. Coding is the most monetizatable use anyone has found for LLMs so far, and the most likely to persist past this initial hype bubble (if the Singularity doesn't work out :p).
more playing to their strengths. a giant chunk of their usage data is basically code gen