u/theitsolutionist

I've been working on architecture documents the last few weeks (well, the last couple of decades, but recently...) and found myself steering away from Opus for the same reason everyone else has (over-verbosity with a huge side helping of hyper-thesaurus) as well as it being overly argumentative and obstinate (as in making teenagers look positively compliant and helpful).

5.5 has none of those problems, and it's faster.

As to coding, haven't had a chance. If anyone is curious, let me know and I will share once I get to try that aspect again.

Meanwhile, good job on this one, Anthropic, and the rule of avoid #.0 - #.3 seems to still hold from the manual patches of the 90's to the forced pushed of the 20's 😏

I've been working on architecture documents the last few weeks (well, the last couple of decades, but recently...) and found myself steering away from Opus for the same reason everyone else has (over-verbosity with a huge side helping of hyper-thesaurus) as well as it being overly argumentative and obstinate (as in making teenagers look positively compliant and helpful).

5.5 has none of those problems, and it's faster.

As to coding, haven't had a chance. If anyone is curious, let me know and I will share once I get to try that aspect again.

Meanwhile, good job on this one, Anthropic, and the rule of avoid #.0 - #.3 seems to still hold from the manual patches of the 90's to the forced pushed of the 20's 😏

This post is much more verbose than your markdowns need to be to get more out of your AI for less.

Project Manager: Do this thing we have never done before that is unique to our business.

Engineer: OK

Project Manager: How long will it take?

Engineer: I've never done it before. I don't know.

Project Manager: OK. But, how long will it take?

Engineer: A day or two.

Project Manager: (2 days later): Is it done?

Engineer: Not yet.

Project Manager: When will it be done?

Engineer: I've never done it before. I don't know.

Project Manager: OK. But, how long will it take?

Unless you just started using projects in Claude and always opt for cloud, switching to a new PC leaves all the important stuff behind. Here's how worked through that.

Posting here for others to share, and perhaps where reddit recommends.

Done with reddit cancel culture. If you find this, please enjoy. If you like this, please share.

It is amazingly satisfying to give Perplexity a deep research project and then respond to each of its summary suggestions with "proceed:".

TBH, I then take that huge thread and give it to Claude and ask it to "Review and summarize".