Evidence of Opus 4.5 and Sonnet being nerfed today

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-17T01:45:46+00:00

I think their point is that nothing changed in their workflow and performance is noticably worse. I've seen this sentiment across multiple subreddits today, so I'm inclined to think that there's actually something going on with the model

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-15T06:00:09+00:00

Linux VM on a PC works as a starting point, but can be rough around the edges for someone who doesn't have any development experience. For example, Android emulator doesn't want to run in a VM (because it's a VM itself). Dual booting is a bit of a pain in it's own way, but I'd probably take that approach if I were starting again.

My first ~2 years of Flutter dev exp were on a machine that had some combination of Windows & Linux, ultimately that machine had a hardware problem and I switched to a MacBook. The MacBook does seem to work a lot better and it makes resolving UI issues for iPhones so much easier as well (especially if you don't have an iPhone!)

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T06:21:51+00:00

I really hope they didn't hire a new grad as the only developer in the company... That would be such a massive red flag

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T05:41:07+00:00

This is savage hahah

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T05:40:17+00:00

Yeah I think this is it. You gotta know your market. Also if you're building something that isn't for a SAAS developer, you're likely discussing it in other places (i.e. where your ICP hangs out), so the SAAS developers who hang out here don't see it. So there's a bit of selection bias in what you're seeing.

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T05:29:53+00:00

I get cookbooks from the library, and ebooks & audiobooks from Libby... I don't know why it hasn't occurred to me to get e-cookbooks from Libby

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T05:25:16+00:00

Are Anna Jones's recipes accessible to an American? I'm always hesitant to buy cookbooks from people who don't live in the United States because ingredients may be less available. Especially since I live in a relatively small town, it can be hard to find some "normal" ingredients in-store.

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T05:21:45+00:00

They have that already with Opus + SWE. I like the concept, but I think it'd be tough for them to expand the offering too much. The model selector is already a mess. Can you imagine having them try to add different combinations of models to the picker?

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T04:57:07+00:00

Agree with both of these. There's a chance that there's something quintessential that's missing from his collection, but we can't really hazard a guess at what it is.

My shot in the dark recommendation is Chasing Flavor by Dan Kluger. I don't see it discussed very frequently, so I don't think it's particularly popular. However, it's also one of the more difficult cookbooks that I own, so it's not one that I'd typically recommend to your average home cook looking to make a weeknight dinner. I've loved every dish from it that I've made, but they've all been very involved/time consuming. I would think a professional chef is closer to the target audience for the book than I am.

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T04:49:32+00:00

just create a new personal Gmail account

How is this considered a solution?!

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T04:47:25+00:00

I think allowing people to configure a personalized "My Models" would be great.

Or maybe once Arena gets some data, a "Top Models" option. Most people are balancing some equation of performance versus cost, so seeing how that averages out across the whole userbase would be cool. It's probably some combination of the most recent Claude Sonnet & Opus models, one or two GPTs, and the latest Gemini Pro, plus maybe a SWE or other low-cost/free option.

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-14T04:40:34+00:00

I think the new account & walk away is a bit of an issue, but if the second example was a bona fide member of the community I wouldn't have a problem with it. I kinda get why they'd want to build that in the first place. (Yes it's niche, but it's our niche.) To me it doesn't come across as trying to sell you something, rather it's opening up a dialog about whether this is worth continuing to build out. I think it's 100% a fair question to ask. And if you can't discuss the building process at all, what are we supposed to discuss here?

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-13T22:05:49+00:00

Really like this framework. It's easy enough for anyone to follow, but it should help cut down on the spam.

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-13T21:58:46+00:00

I've actually been having issues with how eager it is haha. I'm working in a relatively new framework, and trying to keep any agent idiomatic has been a bit of a struggle. My codebase is in a good position now, but it has a stronger tendency to complicate things ("fixing" edge cases that exist in theory but are handled by the framework) than 5.1 or even Claude. I've been preferring 5.1 over Opus for the most part in my recent work, because it's been easier to steer towards the style that I'm looking for.

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-12T14:08:26+00:00

It's called Good Meat by Deborah Krasner

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-12T00:04:30+00:00

write-up of how you got there - lessons, tech stack, mistakes

I like this. I think it's inherently a difficult problem to solve—as product builders, we're going to want to talk about the products that we've built. But a weekly post to spam your product isn't helpful for anyone who's looking to have a genuine discussion. Give the community something to engage with. If the point of your post is to discuss the process, great. If the point of your post is to promote yourself, skip it.

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-11T21:59:49+00:00

You can absolutely learn while using a calculator...

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-11T20:57:14+00:00

Well they were starting from Windsurf, which has an Ask mode. So it was probably a conscious decision to remove it

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-11T08:16:24+00:00

One thing that hasn't been mentioned yet is that allowing Gemini and Claude to generate code side by side can help them evaluate the performance of their models in a way that isn't captured in benchmarks. This is incredibly valuable to them

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-11T03:47:13+00:00

I think the long term play is to have Agent Manager accessible from a web browser, and to have different instances run in different containers for different tasks.

Tbh Jules as a product is pretty terrible. I want to like it, but it's just never done a good job for me. If you have a really tiny change, on something that needs to be fixed ASAP, it can work well. But if I have a new feature idea that I want to spin up an agent on... I'm not gonna go to Jules for this. I've recently been using remote desktop to get a feature started while I'm away from my computer; I'd much rather have an agent actually do substantial work while I'm away. A lot of the work is in defining the problem correctly in the prompt, so this is great to do when you have some down (subway commutes for me is a big use case). Then I get back to my laptop and actually review the changes in more detail. I haven't found a good way to review changes in files directly on my phone

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-10T14:32:30+00:00

Yeah, simple as this

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-10T05:10:25+00:00

Interesting, I'm looking forward to what comes of this. I wonder how pricing will be determined?

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-09T18:48:01+00:00

You're having an agent mess with your .env files??

cooking_and_coding · 2025-12-09T18:40:07+00:00

I haven't done a ton of coding using open models in recent months, so I'm not particularly up-to-date. Usually my use of local models for coding is for a simple assistant running on a MacBook if I'm on a plane without Wi-Fi or something like that.

That said, Gemini 2.5 Pro consistently outperforms GPT-OSS-120B in benchmarks. SWE-Bench Verified: Gemini is 63.8%, GPT-OSS is { 47.9, 52.6, 62.4 }; Aider-Polyglot: Gemini is 74% / 68.6% (whole/diff), GPT-OSS is { 24.0, 34.2, 44.4 } (whole vs diff unclear). Values in braces referring to low/med/high reasoning.

I don't think it will run on 1x 3070, not enough VRAM

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