Comment by littlestymaar
2 days ago
30-years old calculators are still good enough for basic arithmetic and in fact even in 2025 people have one emulated on their phone that isn't more powerful than the original, and people still use them routinely.
If Claude 3 Sonnet was good enough to be your daily driver last year, surely something that is as powerful is good enough to be your daily driver today. It's not like the amount of work you must do to get paid doubled over the past year or anything.
Some people just feel the need to live always on the edge for no particular reason.
Claude 3 Sonnet was good enough for many things, but not as universal as 4.5 Opus. It is immeasureably more useful to me.
I agree with all of your other points though.