• 1984@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    Are these really able to be as good as chat gpt? Because every time I’ve tried a model like that, it has not been able to be nearly as good. I have 48 gb memory on my machine so I can’t run this particular one though.

    I would buy more ram and a whole new computer if the market wasn’t insane.

    • joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 day ago

      It is good enough to be useful for programming. It can do clearly defined tasks like find the root cause of a bug. Using it for writing code is frustrating because it is slow and produces lots of tokens. Meanwhile Opus 5.5 is good enough that you can pretty much rely on it doing exactly what you say (and not what you meant), faster, more context efficient and you get a ton of usage with the cheapest subscription.

      I can see this changing, though. If the open-weight models reach the level of Claude 5.5 and Anthropic stops subsidizing they might be on pretty equal footing. I don’t see how further improving the model would help, except maybe if somebody invents a different way to manage context that remembers all the important details over a long time so it actually “learns”.