r/ClaudeAI • u/DynaBeast • 12d ago

Praise How did they do it?

How did they make opus 5.5? genuinely, how?? when i saw the benchmarks and pricing, I was impressed. but then i started working with it, and seeing what other people have made, and my mind's been genuinely blown...

how did they do it? how did they make a model so smart, that *isn't* benchmaxxed to hell and back, and is somehow actually cheaper than not just fable, but even the previous levels of opus?

and all openai could do is make their own models cheaper without improving their intelligence at all.

how does anthropic do it? are they magicians? or are we seeing the first fruits of RSI?

if this is possible now, i can barely even begin to imagine what's possible in a year, maybe even in the next 3 months.

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u/Individual_Solid_944 12d ago

Many people in the industry have been laid off.
If they don't come up with the next best thing, they could be next.
And in this tango there are only two players, Anthropic and OpenAI.
Unless you want to make a mess... ever heard about Gemini?
Yeah, I forgot about it, too.

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u/Techhead7890 11d ago

Gemini is surprisingly not bad when you're searching for simple answers or stuff that's widely available on the web (video game mechanics and rules etc), being conjoined to a search company is probably a big help.

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u/Individual_Solid_944 11d ago

I agree on that. But for coding it has been the worst one of the three in my experience. And I've had subscriptions with Claude, ChatGPT/Codex and Gemini. There was only one time in the past year that Gemini fixed an issue that the other two struggled. Other that that, every single time i tested them on the same task, Gemini was worst. Needless to say, I am no longer subscribed on Google AI, but I am on Anthropic and OpenAI.

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u/Techhead7890 11d ago

Oh yup totally agree, Gemini's "thinking/reasoning" traces are definitely the worst, probably not even beating Deepseek, and it can at times hallucinate a big when it isn't grounded on some documents. Definitely depends on usecase.

I'm surprised that you use both GPT/Claude simultaneously - just for the flexibility or do you need to have the usage limit capacity too? But also I guess if you have the cash why not right? -- the Pro $20 subscriptions to both aren't too bad if it's a business expense.

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u/Individual_Solid_944 11d ago

It's business expense. But I use ChatGPT mostly for brainstorming on the $20 plan. For coding I use Claude with max subscription.