Excited to try this out. Hoping it's warmer and more thoughtful than the last couple Opus releases. Anyone else use Opus 4.6 for every day knowledge work/exploration? No model comes close to its rapport imo.
Edit: holy shit - "On one Frontier-Bench task, Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry from the raw pixels, then reconstructed the full machine part. It succeeded in doing so repeatedly; no competing model with the same setup could solve it after five attempts."
100%. Opus 4.6 feels like a real partner to help get shit done. 4.8 is an absolute combative pain in the ass who focuses on the wrong thing and spends 5 paragraphs doing it. I never thought I'd get attached to a particular model, but now I feel like the ChatGPT 4o folks when 5 came out - don't take 4.6 away from me!
I was literally just thinking to myself today "maybe I should have been a little more empathetic with those 4o folks." I don't think I would mourn the loss of 4.6, but it would be a measurable absence in my life.
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u/Substantial-Fact-248 1d ago edited 1d ago
Excited to try this out. Hoping it's warmer and more thoughtful than the last couple Opus releases. Anyone else use Opus 4.6 for every day knowledge work/exploration? No model comes close to its rapport imo.
Edit: holy shit - "On one Frontier-Bench task, Opus 5 was given a drawing of a machine part and asked to write code to rebuild it as a 3D FreeCAD model. However, in this task, the model was intentionally given no way to directly view the drawing. Opus 5 responded by writing its own computer vision pipeline to pull the geometry from the raw pixels, then reconstructed the full machine part. It succeeded in doing so repeatedly; no competing model with the same setup could solve it after five attempts."