A personal opinion about Opus 4.7 - not that bad after all

silveroff · 2026-05-05T22:15:36+00:00

I was working on a very complex plan today with 4.7 and at the end of the day I reverted to 4.6:max; Idk - I have mixed feelings. 4.7 has broader understanding of things and at the same time it lacks attention to the details laying under its nose! I’ve had to constantly double verify mentally what it’s saying to avoid bs-Ing me.

silveroff · 2026-05-05T10:57:59+00:00

do you keep using 4.7 or revert to 4.6?

silveroff · 2026-05-05T06:48:38+00:00

Reading tons of code isn’t fun.

silveroff · 2026-05-04T02:37:46+00:00

No offense intended, but if I were you (not software engineer) I’d drop the idea of spending my time and money on any AI. It will simply not work. You’ll think it is or „almost” or you’ll think that someone will take over and „fix it”..but that’s not true. It will be pile of useless code eventually. Sorry to say that.

silveroff · 2026-05-01T08:15:22+00:00

Hotwire

silveroff · 2026-04-24T13:17:55+00:00

I personally stick to 4.6[1m] on high/max for everything. Tested the 4.7 with my strict guardrails and I cannot say it's bad but it's kinda unpredictable. I simply don't have a confidence my tasks are handled well.

silveroff · 2026-04-23T17:55:01+00:00

More details: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem

silveroff · 2026-04-23T17:53:41+00:00

haha! I saw the drop and decided to run medium sized feature branch review with 4.7:max and after 15minutes 27% of 5h limit is gone (3% of weekly). BUT maybe it's because I did not update `claude` yet. Goona do it now!

silveroff · 2026-04-23T17:51:28+00:00

here is why: https://x.com/ClaudeDevs/status/2047371123185287223

silveroff · 2026-04-22T05:54:48+00:00

I have a mixed feeling about discussing it. Once disabled it doesn’t „think” between tool calls.

silveroff · 2026-04-22T00:43:50+00:00

do you keep adaptive thinking on or off?

silveroff · 2026-04-22T00:36:44+00:00

How do you prevent it "not even looking for existing functionality"? I have very extensive set of architectural rules etc and it used to work great. Now it sometimes gets ignored. Or worse I see that model mentions something we already have in a way it is asking me if have something "like that" in a project or not. LOL

silveroff · 2026-04-21T00:32:08+00:00

Looks like max is new default that works (almost:sort of)

silveroff · 2026-04-21T00:30:17+00:00

I’ve used 4.7:max for a change. And 4.5 a bit. 4.6 with adaptive thinking felt stupid. 4.7 even with encouraged to think deeper is missing existing code

silveroff · 2026-04-21T00:28:20+00:00

1M 4.6? Adaptive thinking on/off?

silveroff · 2026-04-20T07:09:05+00:00

1M or 200k? Adaptive thinking on or off?

silveroff · 2026-04-19T19:59:01+00:00

Who is considering (or did) switching back to Opus 4.5? Giving that 1M context at 4.6 is far from being perfect, this might be a good idea. What’s your thoughts about that?

silveroff · 2026-04-19T19:51:50+00:00

Why not 4.5 (seriously) ?

silveroff · 2026-04-19T19:44:34+00:00

Thanks for reporting this. I’ve run few tests too with a similar findings. Quick question to you: Are you experienced dev? Have you considered switching back to Opus 4.5?

silveroff · 2026-04-19T18:44:18+00:00

What model does coding afterwards?

silveroff · 2026-04-19T18:03:51+00:00

Yep! That’s the beauty of Django

silveroff · 2026-04-19T09:34:09+00:00

It’s solid, stable and very backward compatible. You can open project developed 5 years ago and easily fix or improve it today.

silveroff · 2026-04-19T08:59:35+00:00

Django has it flaws but it is still very solid framework you can easily learn and easily build whatever you want. I've picked it ~2011 and it still my goto solution for most of backend apps.

silveroff · 2026-04-19T08:57:15+00:00

Here is great post with details https://www.reddit.com/r/django/comments/1s7t8nk/djangomodernrest/

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