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SkyPunchertoday at 5:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

> My own experience w/ 4.6 and 4.7 are that I don't firmly grasp any capabilities improvements over my memory of 4.5, but it's all so fuzzy that it's truly difficult to tell.

I've actually intentionally switched back to 4.5. I hated 4.7 so much that I decided to jump back all the way to 4.5.

Now that I've been using 4.5 for a few weeks, I find it significantly more reliable but a bit more forgetful than 4.6/4.7. I'm okay with that because it's really easy to identify this forgetfulness and nudge it.

I found 4.7's adaptive thinking to be extremely unreliable. It seems to overcorrect on the current message without considering the difficult of the overall problem. I wonder if 4.8 will improve on that.


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michaelsalimtoday at 9:42 PM

Same here. Went back to 4.5 and was happy I did it. The only frustration was that I can tell the model has declined compared to the first few weeks it was released.

I also recently moved to 4.6 since I started hitting the context limit too often with my current project.

dwaltriptoday at 5:50 PM

If you are using Claude code, just set effort to xhigh.

This one change will probably solve 80% of the problems you have noticed.

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