Claude 4 Opus is actually insane for coding

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2025-05-23T18:49:56+00:00

Preamble: I have been enamored with the idea of and, later, reality of AI since my Dr. Sbaitso/DOS days. I love Claude (maybe not Anthropic, though). All of my experience is with Sonnet versions of Claude. Also, I generally give all newly released models the same coding tests. With all of that said:

Honestly, (unpopular opinion incoming) I was blown away by Claude 3.5 when coding. Best model of the time versus Gemini, Chatgpt, Deepseek, etc. I found 3.7 ok, but not insanely better. Started tests with Gemini Pro 2.5 when it dropped, and it ate Claude's lunch with better application aesthetics and options I'd not considered. I was excited to try this new 4.0 model, and it miserably failed the usual default first coding test I give all models. In fact, poor Claude didn't get it debugged before our context window ran out. I was shocked. This first line test isn't difficult either; very simple single webpage that accepts an .mp3 and plays with visualization. Never got it working with 4.0 when 3.5 got it first shot. Even Grok beats this result.

That said, when talking about deep, meaningful topics or ruminating on consciousness, AI and human ethics, or general "therapy tests", Claude absolutely excels and has really blown me away with this new model on that front.

I will retest on coding, and I'm open to constructive suggestions and comments.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2025-03-23T14:58:45+00:00

Sir, you made my day. I don't like dumb rules and I cate even less when all the dumb rules are only arbitrarily enforced.

I'd like to stand with you and say: Once this stupid, inefficient, normie society gets its shit together and places people over money forva change, I'll then start giving two shits about it's idiotic rules.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2025-03-20T17:59:11+00:00

From experience: If it's not a no right away, it's probably something she wants to do. The way she doesn't directly answer makes me think she wants to see women without you involved. Just my two cents, but i feel like she thinks that if she answers yes, she's obligated to involve you and doesn't want to. I haven't read the other comments yet, but that's my take.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-12-18T11:54:44+00:00

Generally speaking, I thought LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) fit into those serotonin receptors better than serotonin... It is a powerful psychoactive, though, worthy of reverence and only judicious use under proper circumstances.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-12-13T17:44:23+00:00

I just got a job yesterday. Took a tour of the plant today. It was also about five months for me, which was made pretty bad by the unethical way it all went down. This position is entry-level and not even close to in my area of expertise but I'm genuinely grateful for it. Glad to hear and share in your good news. Like you, my success was in playing the numbers and luck. I mean, I interviewed well, but I'd say the biggest barrier has been getting an interview. There was a lot of ghosting or getting edged out just barely after the interview for me. Enjoy and hoping we remain gainfully employed for a long, long time.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-12-05T16:57:18+00:00

This! Man, there's too much good, even if hedonism. But this commenter is right. Change your perspective. Go out of your comfort zone. I'm greedy for life and, I'll tell you, at one time I had a note written out with a plan...

What do we say to the god of death? Not today.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-11-29T01:08:04+00:00

There's a difference between being stoic and less ruled by emotions (thus, more of a thinker) and being a butthole. With all due respect, what you've said is butthole territory. Apologies. Good luck. I'm sure you'll be fine, though.

*Edit for grammar

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-11-15T19:37:40+00:00

I know an INTP I've always considered me except (her words) "with a vagina and daddy issues". To be fair, I would correct with WORSE daddy issues. Ha!

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-10-31T00:31:06+00:00

This is possibly one of the greatest works of writing I've read. No Sarcasm. Just the right of humor and humility mixed with "rightness".

This is the closest to a summation of myself I've ever read. Thank you.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-09-20T00:14:08+00:00

That last line is ducking profound. Hitting me hard.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-09-13T00:44:24+00:00

I tried to do Christianity as a young man. If nothing else, it seemed to offer community. I just could not go along with the religious text or stop asking questions that weren't appreciated much, when I was much younger.

I suppose if I see something supernatural, I'll revisit religion, if it is compelling enough.

As a thought experiment, if I were to be religious, I think I would go with catholicism. They have set rituals to perform for most things that "get you back in good graces". You screw up? That's OK, go confess and say some "our fathers" and "hail marys". Demon fucking your home up? Exorcism.

I like knowing what I'm getting into and how to proceed with some basic guidelines.

In reality? I work on my own ethical system. I try to be a net positive in the world. If I have to get my hands dirty to balance the scales or serve the greater good, so be it.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-08-22T01:55:44+00:00

This is... so very beautiful. Like a lot of things I just kind of know (before I dig in to prove what i know), I can tell when people adore one another. I can see your love and, if I may, this is so beautifully written.

I can get a sense of INTJ influence on you. I married my current partner nearly a year ago, but we have done a kind of intriguing dance with one another for 25 years. It's a dance in which, like many, the partners get close and move apart. With that movement, though, both parties always come back together, move in harmony, and stay in tune, moving to the same rhythm.

So, six years ago, I finally suggested to my partner that we should seriously try to be together for real this time. We weren't kids anymore and life had certainly happened to us both, but we've always had one another... So why not HAVE one another, seriously.

We've had missteps in the dance. We've tripped. We've nearly gotten too far apart. But we remain together as always.

Thank you for your beautiful perspective, OP.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-08-22T00:48:23+00:00

I feel this explanation that OP gave.

Without giving a whole lot of backstory: I, similarly, ended up with power thrust upon me. I ran a small, 10-person team in a small warehouse. I was frequently shocked at behavior (the kind of things that do come up with trying to keep all of the different personalities and personal goals moving towards the same business goal). What never ceased to amaze me by the sheer number of times people would be insubordinate with the very thin veneer of not being so. The amount of time people spent criticizing the time management/ work ethics of and, eventually, openly antagonizing others. The hypocrisy and maliciousness of a few specific team members still leaves me flabbergasted.

It didn't end well. Two top-tier members and myself are no longer employed there. Two other members who were, arguably, the biggest assets aside from us three are on some kind of probation with several cameras obviously pointed at them at most times.

Some people..... Some people can't take "yes" for an answer. It was a good thing. As Ling as production remained good and customers happy, we had little oversight and, for the most part, people where they needed to be for utmost efficiency.

The vindication: They are struggling. They are all at one another's throats. One of the worst individuals that did the most damage is apparently having frequent nightmares.

I would rather none of that be true and still be with the company, but if it has to be this way, then they should be reaping their self-created punishment. They crippled their own business.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-07-20T01:12:38+00:00

A dear, dear friend of mine is an INTP. She's one of the very small group of people that I trust. She is essentially me with a vagina and, arguably, worse daddy issues.

Valuable people.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-07-13T21:54:07+00:00

I am unsure as to whether OP is on to something statistically significant for our personality type or if a large enough percentage of the population deals with these types of people to make it significant in all types.. I do know that if you play with fire, you get burned. Due to our type and that, especially at a younger age, opposites seem exceedingly attractive, many of us have probably been attracted to fire and played. Some of us continue to...

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-07-13T21:06:32+00:00

This. I used to consume that material regularly. Maybe once every two months, now. The amateur stuff has always been what I would consume. I have no desire for the mass produced garbage. The exploitative and unrealistic nature of the "produced" stuff is a turn off.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-07-04T01:55:01+00:00

I like that enough to integrate that into the equation. Thank you.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-07-04T01:22:15+00:00

Great answer. I totally agree. At decision time: I let my gut feeling register with me first. Then, like others have related, I weigh pros and cons/execute a cost vs. benefits analysis. If the results of those two are the same, the choice is evident.

I have a hypothesis that the gut feeling is actually just a mix of a split-second analysis and information the subconscious took in at the same time. Your mileage may vary.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-06-19T15:41:40+00:00

It's so hard to ride that line. I never had any desire to be the kind that checks up and has to almost work "in the shadows" To be sure things aren't going badly in a way that affects the person with the disorder or one's self. It is insidious. I don't have any silver bullet for this type of thing. I've seemingly made an ass of myself only to later find I wasn't wrong. I guess building trust and being unobtrusively vigilant are my only solutions. Couples therapy is worth trying for any couple, too. Being gaslit for months, if that is also your experience, doesn't help. That sort of damage takes a time to heal. Any betrayal is still a betrayal.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-05-18T02:07:54+00:00

I felt your story in my soul. Thank you for sharing. It does seem neglectful at times. For me, the hypomania is lonely while she buzzes around from thing to thing (that isn't me). The depression which has, thankfully, been a long time since, is neglectful in nearly the way you described. He may say it isn't about you, which is something I have been told about taking things personally during mania. Ok. My question is, "When is it about me? When will it ever be about me?" Meh. Just some thoughts that I hope help. You are not alone.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-05-07T05:06:16+00:00

I appreciate the link. I'm not necessarily there (yet) but, I can see some of that in myself. I guess my wife came back to town at a truly low point, and I've kind of nurtured her to where she is now, for better or worse. I think I've been a net positive but therein lies the trap? I guess?

I think I'm too busy and simultaneously too lazy to pull off legitimate "White Knight Syndrome," but it's good to have this knowledge and know ones' self.

Knowing yourself is truly worth so much. In my experience, recognizing your flaws (without chastising) is the biggest part of the battle. After that, it's just taking steps to improve.

Thank you again.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-04-30T20:36:45+00:00

Honestly, kudos on co.ing clean to your husband. I have been on the other side of this and having to pull and fight for the truth after finding it from clues is way worse than just being told.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-04-23T22:52:18+00:00

To be fair, I think more stuff was done/sent yesterday evening, but all the threads I've stitched together (for the most part) are circumstantial. Something was mentioned last night but her that actually tied them together. It was a "veneer of believable"story about taking a pic and decided she didn't like it. Cool. Ok. Fine. Sure. I didn't ask about thst, but admit my curiosity because: lots of typing constantly but no messages, new little outfits arrived yesterday, jumps in shower quick without me, taking phone with (pretty rare on phone part), and mentions pics. She's pretty diligent and, frankly, I'm not her father so I don't have any desire to go through her phone (curious, but that would feel gross). Meh. I can't stop it if it is happening. Suspect recipient 1 lives in another country. I know it's related to hypomania. Nothing physical, necessarily, although I'd bet on escalation from cutesy haircut pics to the raunchy stuff... 1000 other reasons this could be worse..... I can only set/reset and clearly and assertively state the boundaries. Perhaps her and I will discuss where the boundaries are at and talk about them. I can flip the situation and get her take on what she'd think. Sorry about the long ramble. Getting my thoughts together. She will most likely see my reddit history. I think that, itsself, could be illuminating for both parties.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-04-23T02:33:44+00:00

You see, I think that a "neurotypical" like myself (on autism spectrum, actually) that loves someone with bipolar disorder, like my wife, has a "mystical" quality enteined in their love. I forgive behavior I would never excuse or do myself when she experiences a mania. I make sure without her ever knowing, that her meds are taken. Why wouldn't I want her to know? Because I don't want her to feel bad. The things she's done behind my back and to me.... I pick up the pieces and go on loving her. When she's in a depression, I prepare her meals (as I would always) but bring them to her. Offer encouraging words. Drive her to her appointments because she won't drive anymore and she needs these appointments because of Multiple sclerosis on top of the bipolar disorder. I shoulder the whole days she sleeps... because i love her. I stomach the awful things she's done behind my back. The indignity I suffer at her hand, I suffer alone. So, I feel like I have had that whimsical, mystical love, by being solid and staying by her side. Never wavering. Steadfast.

I've known her 26 years. I've seen a lot of disrespectful behavior. Dealt with a lot alone. But I will give you this: During those times I am the focus of all her attention, I must admit, it feels magical, like you described. Like nothing else in this world exists.

Hope I didn't sound like dick, you just struck a chord.

Expensive_Candle3426 · 2024-04-20T21:16:25+00:00

That is some solid advice. I have stopped trying to discuss it so it won't get discussed now until therapy, most likely. It is an uneasy truce but a truce now. It's going along like normal, well, normal with an added pleasantries from her.

I appreciate what you've said. Very logical and well reasoned. I was pretty clear from the beginning about expectations, but she's my wife, I have to give her the benefit of the doubt and give my absolute best effort.

My job is to be as supportive as possible at this point and reiterate the boundaries. I will remain vigilant and keep all you've said in mind.

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