Comment by xvector

20 hours ago

Rose tinted glasses

Nah, until recently i still had access via web chat interface, and often paste a transcript and files for somethong 4.7 keeps fucking up, paste response into files as appropriate, and attempt to continue with 4.7.

I swear 4.6+ looks for reasons to ask clarifying questions sometimes, even when really not required, and this fucks flow/quality up in a big way.

I just wish there was a "im not stupid" checkbox you can use to get a minimalistic interference access to claude. Im starting to use local models again, which I havent in a while because claude was so much better, but once i fully lose access to 4.5 it might be time to go back to fully local for good. 4.6+ fails to add value for me, projects 4.5- did good jobs on first try now require multiple prompts and feedback. Exact same initial prompt and project files extracted from archive. I liked claude because it aced those tests while local required handholding. Now claude requires handholding, so why use it over local? Once 4.5 leaves openrouter it might just be time.

4.5 was clearly better than .6 and .7. Like, clear as day.

.6 is some sort of quantized or distilled .5 with a bit more RL, and the current .5 is that same cost reduced model without the extra RL.