Lol

Please don’t nerf Opus 5.5.

All nice, but they'll first have to ship a model on par with Opus 5.5 if they want to sell it

Opus 5.5 is truly a model from another world. I can’t express how much this model blows me away. For me, it feels like a bigger step than even Fable felt back then. Unbelievable

This must be one of the saddest charts I’ve seen @patrickc

I couldn’t agree more. And it’s very true: we’re essentially the „early adopters“. It’s crazy if you talk to „normal“ people and they have no idea what’s coming for them

I've been reflecting on this. I'm generally a very optimistic person, but lately I've been feeling a strange sense of sadness that coding has been "solved". I can, and have, made many caveats to "solved"... but I also know that in five years none of them will matter. It will be solved. Building things is still fun, but a different kind of fun. It doesn't activate the same parts of my brain as trad coding did. I think it's okay to mourn the thing we loved doing being different now. Software was the first job to go through the five AI stages of grief, which means we're also some of the first to internalize that this will happen to many other jobs. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

The worst part of every project is if you need some Google API key.

Oh yes. This hits hard

Got Opus 5.5, GPT 6 Sol, Grok 4.7 over those last ~30 hours. AND also MiMo 2.6 which is maybe not the same league but also pretty impressive! Long story short: You should use Opus 5.5. If you don't have a Claude sub, now may be the time to get one. If you're stuck with the OpenAI sub, you're out of Claude usage, or you simply prefer OpenAI, you should still go with Astra, even though it's a bit harder to "wield" and get useful results out of. GPT 6 Sol is good if you need to go farther (usage wise) than with Astra. But it IS simply a smarter 5.6 Sol. Which, I guess, was the goal. It just seems bad because Opus 5.5 launched yesterday, too. By the way, don't sleep on Luna! It's dirt cheap, even with max effort. Obviously not the model you should use for frontier coding work, but for very trivial tasks, or especially for non-coding tasks it may very well be the best choice. Because it's essentially infinite usage you get out of it. Grok 4.7 is rather disappointing. Slow, inefficient, and doesn't feel that much smarter than 4.6. I'll still to 4.6 for now therefore. Well, actually I'll use Opus 5.5, but if I'm working with Grok, it'll be 4.6. Hopefully 4.8 will be a step in the right direction then. MiMo 2.6 is a Chinese (open weights) model that comes in "Pro" and "Flash" variants. I used the "Pro" one yesterday and found it really good. To be honest: Not something I'll keep on using because I got my subscriptions with Claude etc. BUT MiMo is incredibly cheap (I used it at API prices and only spent a few bucks) and pretty intelligent. The best open model right now. So give it a try if you got use-cases where you can't or don't want to use a subscription. Be aware though, that MiMo 2.6 Pro at max effort is VERY slow and thinks A LOT.

Is the Whoop 5 good? For workout tracking, sleep tracking, daily activity tracking? Can I get access to my data via API and build my own dashboards etc? Website sounds like all that is the case but I want to hear from people that actually used it

It's so nice to do work with Opus 5.5 and /usage simply doesn't move. :)

Every now and then you get a model that looks like a real game changer again. Opus 5.5 really seems to be such a model. Still in early testing (I did not get any early access) but it's precise, quick, affordable, it writes well (!!!) and so much more. Anthropic really cooked here.

Let's hope for the best that this is really (reliably) the case for Opus 5.5 :D

It's crazy how far we've come. Casually porting to a different language in 9.5 hours. (don't know the code quality, but the fact alone that this is possible and kind of trivial now is crazy)

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The thought process of MiMo 2.6 is from another world 😄 EASILY spends 10 minutes or more thinking. But it looks pretty promising regarding the results. And the price is of course amazing.

I 100% agree. It's dead. Doesn't matter anymore. Though, framework / tech stack choice still matters to some degree. I use Effect and Alchemy in my projects to give agents some guardrails and rules, without constraining them too much though. But for backend / frontend, I really just use what works well for agents, is well maintained and delivers the performance I'm looking for. In general. It's really crazy, how ecosystem size, DX, innovation etc all used to be more important in the past. It's not all gone but FAR less important now.