alt Hacker NewsJust tried K3 out for the first time today and it's a legitimate threat.
Temporarily (maybe permanently) using it as my daily driver but it's wild how comparable it is to Opus 4.7/4.8 (what's been my go to for a bit now—wrote a quick post on what I found today [1]).
Replies
ATMLOTTOBEER • yesterday at 1:55 AM
Agreed. Dropped my $200/mo Claude I was saturating for the $100/mo moonshot sub and have no complaints
Plus I can actually see the thinking traces and I’m not getting downgraded/denied by anthropic constsntly…
➕ show 1 reply
igravious • yesterday at 7:10 AM
threat?
that's a weird way of describing a near frontier open weights un-crippled useful coding buddy
do you work for OpenAI or Anthropic per chance?
➕ show 1 reply
Better than Opus 4.8 on complex tasks but tends to overthink. It found a bunch of bugs and architecture issues that only 5.6 Sol Max and Fable on my C++ projects.