> Trust me, try it, try Claude 3.7 > 4.0 > 4.5 > Opus 4.5 ...

I started with Sonnet 4 and now using Opus 4.5. I don't see a meaningful difference. I think I'm a bit more confident to one prompt some issues but that's it. I think the main issue is that I always knew what/how to prompt (same skill as googling) so I can adjust once I learn what a modell can do. Sonnet is kinda the same for me as Opus.

> LLMs really work the best, if you plan, plan, plan, and then have them create the code for you. The moment you try to get the LLMs work inside existing code, that is especially structured how YOU like it, people tend to be more standoffish.

My project is AI code only. Around 30k lines, I never wrote a single line. I know I cannot just let it vibe code because I lost a month getting rid of AI spaghetti that it created in the beginning. It just got stuck rewriting and making new bugs as soon as it fixed one. Since then I'm doing a lot more handholding and a crazy amount of unit/e2e testing. Which btw. is a huge limiting factor. Now I want powerful dev machine again because if unit + e2e testing takes more than a couple seconds it slows down LLMs.

> Pricing is how you look at it... If i do the work what takes me a months in a few days, what is the price then?

I spent around 200 USD on subscriptions so far. I wanted to try out Opus 4.5 so I splurged on a Claude Max subscription this month. It's definitely a very expensive hobby.

> And its ironically often the seasoned guys that complain the most about AI

I think because we understand what it can do.